Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tons of it through Haiphong's port. Military equipment makes up only 550 tons daily in imports, and "little if any" of it comes in by sea. Haiphong is a "convenience rather than a necessity" for imports, and even if all 400 miles of North Vietnamese coast could be interdicted, "North Viet Nam would still be able to import over 8,400 tons a day by road, rail and waterway." McNamara noted that the U.S. had long ago destroyed Haiphong's petroleum off-loading facilities. As a result, Hanoi now unloads petroleum from tankers sitting offshore. Barges float...
Citizens of the tiny British crown colony of Mauritius, 1,400 miles off the African coast, take their politics seriously. The island's 32 newspapers and one radio station covered the latest parliamentary election campaign in twelve languages from English to Urdu. Interest ran so high that nearly 90% of the eligible voters cast ballots, and Premier Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam's Independence Party, which campaigned on a platform calling for complete freedom from Britain, won 43 of 70 seats in the legislative assembly...
...begin to drift apart some 200 million years ago? Some scientists believe so, and many recent findings support them. This month still more compelling evidence of continental drift was reported by U.S. and Brazilian geologists. Their principal finding was that two highly distinctive adjacent geological areas on the Atlantic coast of Africa match perfectly with a pair of rock regions located along Brazil's northeast coast...
...West Coast, the clubs and restaurants that feature topless female entertainers and waitresses also seemed to be going the way of all flesh. In Los Angeles, 20% of the joints have closed. In San Francisco, where crowds used to queue on the sidewalks waiting even for bar space, tables are going begging and one spot has switched back to old-fashioned belly-dancing. Reasons range from the competing tourist attraction of the hippie haunts in Haight-Ashbury to the high cost of drinks (usually $1.50) at the topless bars. But the chief cause may be simple overexposure. "When...
...obviously a landlubber. Never in U.S. history have so many men gone down to the sea (or lake, or river) in ships (or boats)-and whether they sail a 13-ft. Blue Jay or a 70-ft. offshore racer, they are a breed apart. West Coast fanatics get their kicks out of racing dinky, 8-ft. El Toros around treacherous San Francisco Bay, where a 20-knot wind is just air conditioning. Wintertime "frostbite" racing in tiny dinghies (6ft. to 14-ft. cockleshells with sails) is all the rage on the Great Lakes: "I was dunked three times last winter...