Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the French Canadian provincial capital, police flagged down motorists and searched their cars. The airport and railway station swarmed with plainclothesmen. On the cliffs overlooking the St. Lawrence River, khaki-clad Canadian army troops took their positions while Navy frogmen ran a final check for mines in the dock area of Wolfe's Cove. Yellow police barricades lined the city streets, and knots of helmeted riot police stood ready. Their orders were clear: all demonstrations were banned...
...simplest terms, the current dispute pits Man against Machine. Management representatives claim, and a Labor Department study confirms, that new technology has made the traditional 20-man dock crew unnecessary. Management wants a reduction of six in the crew size; the union wants no reduction...
...Mosbacher, who skippered Weatherly to a cup victory in 1962; taking the wheel of American Eagle for the first time, Mosbacher beat Bavier to the line four times in a row. Perched on the deck of a nearby cabin cruiser, Scott watched the scrimmage with interest. Back on the dock somebody asked him: "Don't you ever take a day off?" Answered Scott: "I'll think about taking time off when I've got the America's Cup in the locker...
...John Gustad, psychologist and former liberal arts dean at Alfred University, rounded up 21 men "capable enough and nutty enough to help make a curriculum that would last long enough for us to see what was wrong. They had to be willing to walk off the end of the dock with us," says Gustad jovially. Admissions Director Robert Norwine was enticed from Wesleyan University, and he proceeded to choose 97 talented nonconformists from 1,200 freshman applicants. Tuition is stiff ($4,200 a year), but 80% of the students get scholarship...
...acquired three years ago by Tex Thornton's Litton Industries. Aerojet-General recently bought Jacksonville's Gibbs Shipyards, and General Dynamics last January picked up Bethlehem Steel's huge yard at Quincy, Mass. Lockheed's highly efficient subsidiary in Seattle, Puget Sound Bridge & Dry Dock, has raised its payroll from 600 to 4,000 since 1960, expects that its sales will rise 75% this year, to $76 million...