Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems incredibly distant when the block leader met immigrants at the dock and served as their only real protector and mediator in an alien land, or when immigrants huddled together in specific neighborhoods where they found the old customs, the old language, and relatives or friends to get them jobs. Today the U.S. receives fewer than 300,000 immigrants a year (even so, the rate is higher than that of any other nation in the world), and they still tend to seek out members of their own nationality. But for the most part, they find these in a state...
...freezing point, even when the ice nearby is seven inches thick The system, which had been tried experimentally by the Navy, was first used commercially as far back as 1958 by the Harbor Marine Center in Cos Cob, Conn., initially just to keep ice from accumulating around the dock pilings. By chance, a few boats were left in the water and survived the winter in excellent condition...
Bubble baths are so simple that one can even be installed for a lone boat at a private dock (cost: $250). But it is most popular in marinas. This winter the Cos Cob boatyard will keep 80 boats in the water, and Manager Michael Brown expects the number to double again in 1967-68. The one Chicago marina to try it is full to capacity. Ted Fischer, president of the Northport Marina on Long Island installed a bubble system two years ago, now has 75 boats lined up to float until spring...
...trimmed other fat enjoyed by longshoremen, some 8,000 union members in Buenos Aires went on strike. Ongania sent troops to protect those who wanted to work; soon loading operations were back to normal. Surprisingly, the largest union association, the Confederation General del Trahajo, chose not to defend the dock workers. When the C.G.T.'s new executive committee conferred with Ongania this month, he was in no mood to temporize. "I would like to be popular," he said. "Instead, we have a lot of sacrifices to ask of everybody...
...burly, unblinking Tsafendas sat in the dock, his head bobbing, his lips forming soundless words, the experts described him as a schizophrenic haunted by the obsession that a tapeworm was coiled up inside his stomach, gnawing and cutting him to pieces. Over the past 30 years, they added, Tsafendas had been a mental patient in five countries, including the U.S., and had escaped from at least two institutions. Settling down in South Africa, Tsafendas somehow landed his messenger's job last August (a secret government inquiry is exploring the lapse in screening); then, acting on the impulse that...