Word: channelized
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...amazing progress rests squarely with Rotterdam's politicians and businessmen. Rather than wait for a blessing by the national government at The Hague, they have gone ahead with plans in a fait accompli fashion. Last year, for example, the Rotterdammers decided to deepen the port's sea channel to accommodate tankers up to 225,000 tons (present capacity is 130,000). The first of these giants is expected at the end of this year, and the entire project should be completed by late 1969. Typically, by the time The Hague gave its nod, the dredging...
...Airlines flights to Havana had to submit to laborious immigration and secret-police screenings by Mexican authorities. Some, like Carmichael, flew to Prague or Moscow and then to Havana. Others worked their way to the Yucatan, and were whisked by special undercover "fishing fleets" across the 125-mile Yucatan Channel to Cuba. A Venezuelan guerrilla leader named Amerigo Martin even went so far as to travel to Colombia and sign aboard a boat bound for Spain, where he evidently planned to fly to Eastern Europe and then to Cuba; en route, however, his boat docked in Venezuela, and police-tipped...
...British convict named Eddie Chapman was imprisoned on the Isle of Jersey. When the Germans overrun the place, according to this semidocumentary, he convinces the commandant that he will sell out for a price. Thereafter, says this new film, he shuttles back and forth across the English Channel getting high Marks from the Germans and a mound of Pounds from the British. Neither side trusts him completely-with good reason. He is not a single or a double agent, but a triple one, in business for himself. Still, in the end, he does aid Britain by giving Germany false information...
...anyone from a $100,000-a-year vice president to an operative with a mimeograph machine and a credit card. But certain trends stand out. The virtuoso has given way to committees, with a memo-writing style involving such terms as "idea transference," "posture of receptivity," and the "multiple-channel approach." Specialization is on the rise: there are firms for proxy fights, firms for staying out of trouble on civil rights, firms to get the New Rich into society, firms oriented toward culture or sports...
...apartment building and car have been expropriated by the government. In compensation, Malabre gets a monthly pension that is supposed to continue for 13 years, though he suspects it will not. Both his parents and his wife are "90-milers," that is, Cubans who have fled across the narrow channel to the U.S. Malabre stayed behind because "I already know the States: but what's happening here is a mystery to me." He drifts through the Havana streets under the "diarrhea of our tropical sun," and picks up amenable girls such as Elena, who has decided opinions. She says...