Baltimore (CA 68) - Naval Cruise Book

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V JusT Tour hours sTeaming Time Trom TriesTe, across The Top oT The AdriaTic lies The ancienT ciTy oT Venice. As The ship pulls slowly inTo her anchorage, a gondola comes To The TooT oT The gangway, you sTep in, and ride away Trom The ship, The navy, and The world inTo a sTory boolc, inTo a real live world oT TanTasy and romance, where greaT spires and churches and beauTiTul palaces rise ouT OT The waTer as in a Tairy Tale, Your gondola moves slowly pasT The many liTTle TooT bridges ThaT arch graceTully over The innumera- ble small side canals ThaT lead oTT inTo The labyrinTh won- derland: pasT The Bridge oT Sighs and The beauTiTul,mag- niTicenT Doge's Palace on San Marco's square: and Then -San Marco square iTselT wiTh iTs Thousand pigeons, iTs greaT Tower reaching inTo The slsy, and The CaThedral oT San Marco, one oT The world's greaTesT remaining exam- up The Grand Canal ples oT ByzanTine arT and culTure-oT The glory ThaT was ByzanTium: and iusT ahead-The Grand Canal, lined on eiTher side by The palaces oT The greaT oT The pasT, spanned only by The RialTo. Your gondola sTops and you geT ouT and wind your way Through The TwisTing liTTle sTreeTs, seeing in The liTTle shops on every side The Tine, The beauTiTul, The exquisiTe, The hand blown glass and The hand made lace oT The Venecian arTisans, NighT Talls and The Fairy Princesses lighT Their million sTars, and The gondoleers move slowly up The Grand Canal in procession, singing The ancienT songs ThaT have echoed over The waTers oT Venice Tor hun- dreds oT years. lT seems buT momenTs and The Time is up, and we musT come baclc again To The realiTy oT our ship and our iobs-buT always wiTh The memory oT The beauTy and enchanTmenT ThaT is Venice, The bridge of Sighs

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The waTerfronT SiTuaTed aT The Top oT The AdriaTic Sea, in The norTh- easTern corner, caughT beTween The desires oT lTaly To The wesT and Yugoslavia To The easT, lies The meTropoliTan area oT -l'riesTe lThe e is pronounced by The naTivel, a world Tree TerriTory, governed by her own civil auThoriTies and adminisTered by The combined miliTary commissions oT The Americans, BriTish, and Yugoslavians . . . The Yugoslavian secTor being known as lower slobbovia To The residenT American and BriTish Troops. One oT The guieTesT, clean- esT, and pleasanTesT liberTy ciTies in The MediTerranean area, TriesTe has Two Things To oTTer ThaT are noT Tound in any oTher porT visiTed-a large miliTary exchange oTTering prices and bargains unparalleled anywhere else in The world, and a good old American Sugar Bowl, where you can geT a hamburger wiTh and a chocolaTe malT, iusT like you used To geT back home aT The corner drug sTore, or aT The drive in aTTer a dance or a show, . . iusT a Ii++le Touch oT home Tha+ comes as a sorT oT welcome relief Trom all The Toreign beer. And speaking oT beer-real American beer, righT on The pier nexT To The ship, aT be++er Than STaTeside prices. All The comTorTs oT home, including more beauTiTul women per square TooT Than anywhere in The Med. STreeT scene

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