Word: canale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This wasn't the first time you kissed, was it?" A: "No." But it was the last time with Airman Gary C. Hodges. As she told it, Mary had amiably gone along for a ride when, without warning, he kissed her. Smack! -the car wound up in a canal. Mary sued him for her assorted injuries, and the jury awarded her $7,500. Dismayed, Hodges took his kissing case to Florida's Third District Court of Appeal on the ground that Mary had willingly kissed back with a "reckless disregard for her safety" that made her guilty...
...rice, matches and meat are scarce. The cotton crop, afflicted by a bollworm plague this year, is in hock to Soviet-bloc countries to pay for the delivery of factories, which the Egyptians manage inefficiently. In fact, there is only one thing that really works in Egypt-the Suez Canal. Because its foreign-exchange earnings are vital, the canal has been given a free hand to recruit the best men available and operate without bureaucratic interference...
When President Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the canal from its British and French owners, the Times of London, in a typical Western view, declared: "An international waterway of this kind cannot be worked by a nation of as low technical and managerial skills as the Egyptians." Now, ten years after Nasser's nationalization, it is clear that the Egyptians are, if anything, better capable of running the canal than the old Suez Canal...
...Collisions. The annual report of the new Suez Canal Authority, published last week, shows that 20,289 ships passed through the canal last year, compared with 14,466 in 1955, the year before nationalization. Tonnage has more than doubled, and revenues have almost doubled. Canal Authority Chairman Mashour Ahmed Mashour expects to earn close to $225 million for Egypt this year and increase tonnage about 10%. There have been only two collisions in ten years...
...canal authority still has problems, but nothing like those of ten years ago. The first chairman, Mahmoud Younes, was given 60 hours' notice by Nasser in July 1956 to start running the canal. Although he had only general civil-engineering experience, the hard-driving Younes overcame the desperate shortage of managers and technicians. But in September, 156 foreign pilots quit, leaving him with 26 Egyptian and seven Greek pilots. By working his pilots 17 hours a day seven days a week, Younes kept ships moving through the canal...