Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely place to start drilling is north of Puerto Rico, where the deep ocean floor lies conveniently close to San Juan's harbor. The project's cost might be $20 million at most, or perhaps only $5,000,000. Nobody knows where the money will come from, but an AMSOC daydreamer is not easily discouraged...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Repeat of Rod Serling's Time Limit, about a tormented daydreamer (William Bendix) who imagines the Pearl Harbor attack before it happens...
...refugees. Both pressure and promise failed. In desperation, some fishermen tried eking out a living with odd jobs ashore, or by begging in the streets; they had almost nothing to eat in Macao, but still would not go back. Last week, with 500 Chinese junks still in Macao harbor, Peking tried another approach...
...noon a Chinese gunboat moved into the harbor and contemptuously lay to a few yards off Macao's downtown wharves. Next day two armed motor junks began zigzagging among the fishing fleet. Later Communist police launches joined in. They fired no guns but that night far fewer junks remained...
Pressed by newsmen, Portuguese officials reluctantly admitted that the Chinese had indeed kidnaped some fishermen, and had forced others to go home. But as always, the Portuguese had no intention of offending their immense neighbor. When asked whether the Communist gunboat had not violated Portuguese waters, the harbor master talked vaguely about his authority extending out only 70 yds. from the shore-a figure that conveniently put the gunboat in the clear...