Word: gats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lifted its blockade and aerial surveillance. Thant flew to Havana-and ran into a cold climate. Ordinarily, Fidel Castro is one of the world's most assiduous airport greeters. But he did not show up to welcome Thant, and when the two finally did meet, Castro had his gat ostentatiously bolstered on his hip. In his long, rambling talks, Castro sputtered that Khrushchev had sold him down the river. As to the bargain the Russian Premier had made with Kennedy, Castro cried: "I have not once been consulted...
...public alarm was profound, and engineers swiftly blueprinted a $650 million plan to safeguard the delta forevermore by damming up four of the region's principal sea arms (see map). Fortnight ago the Delta Plan marked its first milestone: the damming of the 2,000-ft.-wide Veersche Gat...
...Concrete Piles. At the Eastern Scheldt 72 caissons will be needed, and at the Brouwershavensche Gat, 32. The most challenging project is the three-mile-wide Haringvliet inlet, through which an estimated 50% of the combined waters of the Rhine and the Meuse pour out to the sea. The plan is to close Haringvliet with massive sluices anchored to the sea bot tom by 20,000 concrete piles. In the winter and spring, the 400-ton sluice gates will open to vomit out ice sweeping down the rivers...