Word: bays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many who attempted the more dangerous escape routes never made it. Several of the 18 fishing trawlers that headed down the coast toward Walvis Bay were swamped by breakers or foundered on the rocks of a coastline notorious for shipwrecks. As of last week, only 14 boats, carrying about 300 refugees, had struggled to safety in Walvis Bay. The South African government has set up army tent towns as reception centers for the refugees. As quickly as possible the exiles are shunted on to Windhoek or Walvis Bay for air and sea passage back to Portugal...
...Little Bait. In Southeast Asia, the Soviet drive is for military bases. The Russians are eying Cam Ranh Bay, the massive port in South Viet Nam built by the U.S. for more than $130 million. Because such an acquisition would really alarm China, most observers see it as unlikely. "Whether Hanoi avoids Peking's wrath will depend on how successfully the North Vietnamese can make it appear that they are working in Asia's interest and not just in their own or the Soviet Union's," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. "Hanoi just...
Scotland's Bay City Rollers...
Rollers is the British word for soft rockers. That accounts for one part of the group's name. Its collective eye on the American market, the Rollers stuck a pin in a map of the U.S. and hit Bay City, Mich...
...story building and weigh 1,750 tons? After looking at a variety of techniques, the Luckman designers, collaborating with Rolair Systems, Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif, found the answer in air-film technology. Already used by Boeing to move heavy airframes about and by San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system to swing subway cars around at terminals, this new technology allows large, bulky objects to be maneuvered on so-called air bearings-thin (.031 in.), porous plastic disks. When air is forced through the disks from above at high pressure, it builds up underneath them...