Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ship was scheduled for a drydock inspection in January, the visit was postponed. The Queen, one of the T-2 tankers of World War II vintage, had a characteristic "weak back," and had to be checked carefully for keel fractures. The drydock inspection was postponed, said Fike, because Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., to whom the ship was chartered, "was behind in its orders of sulphur. The captain was surprised and disappointed...
...joint fertilizer venture. American Cyanamid has joined with the Taiwan Sugar Corp. to set up a $2,000,000 antibiotics plant. Together with Chinese partners, Procter & Gamble is building a detergent-manufacturing plant. Atlas Chemical an industrial dynamite plant. Singer sewing machine, Harvey Aluminum and Gulf Oil plan to come in soon...
...three days the 67-ft. shrimp boat Ala drifted eastward through the Florida Straits, nudged along by the Gulf Stream. Its diesel engines had burned out, its radio was powerless, it was taking water. The two Negro shrimpers out of Florida's Fort Myers stood knee-deep in water, bailing for their lives. Near dusk, a MIG jet out of Cuba swooped toward the boat...
...marathon runner, at 40 (Donald Davis) a disgruntled fictional crafts man of obscure worst-sellers, at 60 (Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson of his life as the four Sams discuss marriage, mistresses, goals and the gulf between father and son, a relationship vividly accented by Paul Rogers' portrayal of a paternal Victorian martinet. Ustinov's conclusions are not startling: that young radicals become old conservatives, that sons understand and forgive their fathers too late; that marriage is more a football, than an Elysian field...
...Arab politics), the revolt seemed an impressive triumph for Egypt's Nasser, even if he had no direct hand in it. If so, there would be trouble for the hard-pressed kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as well as for the British-protected sheiks of the Persian Gulf. "Kassem has gone; soon Kings Saud and Hussein will go too," said a complacent Egyptian in Cairo. But first, Nasser's supporters were confident that the Iraqi coup would set off a succession of uprisings in neighboring Syria, which has already put down two pro-Nasser revolts since breaking...