Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jones. Fishing buffs who yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent $17 million providing a fitting setting for the homes of such notables as Henry Ford II and the Earl of Dudley...
Indian navy minesweepers carefully swept Mormugão harbor, India's richest prize from the invasion and the finest natural harbor on the Indian subcontinent. Biggest economic boon of union with India for agriculturally impoverished Goa will be the availability of cheaper food. After India placed a trade embargo on Goa in 1954, the Goans were forced to import most of their food and vegetables from as far away as The Netherlands. The trade ban will soon be lifted...
...from Sékou Touré, it was startling indeed, for Guinea's boss is the deep-dyed Marxist who gave the Communists their first foothold on the Dark Continent. He brought in the Poles to organize his public-works program, let the Czechs manage Conakry's harbor and advise the army, invited dozens of Red Chinese technicians to help with the rice crop. Most important, he welcomed more than 500 Russians who brought with them promises of credits of more than $56 million for an array of technical projects; scores of Guinean students went to Moscow with...
...will fight to the end." But Silva's ill-equipped, 3,000-man army, which Nehru had said was "massing menacingly," had other ideas. Only real show of Portuguese resistance was put up by the 1,783-ton sloop Afonso de Albuquerque. Steaming out of Marmagão harbor, the little frigate exchanged fire with an Indian cruiser and two destroyers for 45 minutes. Her captain badly wounded, the crippled ship was finally beached. Less than two days after Indian troops crossed the frontier, the Portuguese surrendered. The night after the surrender in Pangim, a happy Sikh infantryman...
Since that time, no President has stumped him, although all four of the Presidents Romagna has served have given him bad moments. On Pearl Harbor night, Roosevelt installed him in a bathroom adjoining the presidential bedroom to record, unbeknownst to the assembly, a secret Cabinet meeting from behind a 2-in. oaken door. Romagna recalls the experience as "ghastly." There was a phone in the bathroom, and assorted Cabinet members popped in to use it-forcing Romagna to hide behind another door. In 1948, on tour with Harry Truman. Romagna transcribed more than 300 of Truman's 536 campaign...