Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baylor University he met Nancy Aynesworth, daughter of a prominent Waco, Texas, physician. They were married in 1933 during Mann's senior year at Baylor Law School and went to Laredo, where Tom went into practice with his father and brothers for $100 a month. Then came Pearl Harbor, and Tom drove 150 miles to Corpus Christi to join the Navy. When he took his physical exam, he found he couldn't even read the largest E on the eye chart. "I had read so much in preparing those appellate cases," he says, "that I had a muscle...
Rocketing Rout. With the Uganda and Kenya rebellions quelled for the moment, only Tanganyika's Nyerere remained in any danger from his own army. That situation was rectified at week's end when, at Nyerere's request, the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Centaur in Dar es Salaam harbor went into action...
Clouds of balloons floated out over the harbor and bright flags decorated staid old Bay Street in downtown Nassau. Past the reviewing stand, filled with bewigged and berobed colony officials, marched rows of schoolboys while policemen in starched white uniforms stood stiffly at attention and thousands of children sang and cheered. Thus did something called "limited independence" come to the Bahamas, Great Britain's 700 islands scattered over 90,000 square miles of sunny ocean off the tip of Florida...
...small chance became thundering reality in Texas City in 1947, when two shiploads of ammonium nitrate fertilizer blew up in the harbor, setting off fires and further explosions that killed 512 people, wounded more than 3,500. The dreary legal aftermath of that holocaust is recalled in a new study of Government liability by Columbia University's Legislative Drafting Research Fund, which points out that Texas City victims waited nine years for their first penny of Government compensation. After the Supreme Court ruled they could not collect under the Tort Claims Act, a special act of Congress allowed them...
...next year: "We must continue to break our geographical boundaries." Hartmann looks to Asia, Africa and South America as places where future projects will be big enough to interest Hochtief. Besides the temple job at Abu Simbel, Hochtief has eight other major foreign projects on hand, ranging from a harbor in India to power plants in Buenos Aires. In the postwar period, the firm has completed $200 million worth of foreign construction, including India's first big steel plant, an imperial palace near Teheran and Athens' new Hilton hotel...