Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works ashore; vibration from the yacht's big generators (which Burrows checked by placing a Vichy bottle on deck, watching it quiver) made picture-taking aboard ship impossible. But with Niarchos' aid, Burrows found an emergency source of power for his lights. Some of the harbor's available motorboats were rounded up and their generators wired together for current so that the yacht's power plant could be stilled. For the results of Burrows' efforts, and the story of a fabulous collector and his collection, see ART, The Golden Fleece...
...Committee proclaiming the "positive significance of the Central Committee's policy of not implementing the democratic reform in Tibet within six years." Said the Red statement plaintively: ''Facts have proved that only a few of the upper-strata personages support the reform, while the majority still harbor varying degrees of doubt and are actually against it; and that, although a small portion of the masses enthusiastically demand reform, the large portion of the masses still lack enthusiasm." Nine-tenths of the Red cadres (but not the Red troops) sent into Tibet from China have been withdrawn, local...
...Royal Navy, which had flown for 162 triumphant years over the vast Trincomalee naval station on Ceylon's east coast, came fluttering down its flagstaff for the last time. In its place, proud Ceylonese raised the Golden Lion of Ceylon's own navy. In the harbor, Her Majesty's cruiser Ceylon, the 8,781-ton flagship of Britain's once-mighty East Indies squadron, paused momentarily to exchange naval courtesies with the inward-bound Vijaya, a hastily reconditioned 13-year-old British minesweeper, which is the only "capital" ship of Ceylon's own eight-vessel...
American monetary and technical assistance has been largely responsible for the maintenance of this strong counter-weight on Russia's southern borders, providing heavy subsidies for road building, harbor developments, and industrial construction as well as for strict military needs. But American help has been more than matched by the eagerness of the Turks themselves to develop a military force capable of restraining the Russians, for whom they bear an ingrained contempt. The Turks have been so eager to fight Communists, in fact, that they volunteered a highly effective brigade of troops for duty in Korea under the United Nations...
...fame: it is located 184 ft. below sea level, and fondly calls itself "the lowest-down city in the Western Hemisphere." Last week Calipatria got a raise in stature, if not elevation, as it demonstrated how far the Imperial Valley has come since the old days-and Pearl Harbor days-when inflamed feelings against Japanese settlers brought persecution and bloodshed...