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...Victory carried munitions across the Pacific in the closing months of World War II. In 1950 she was reactivated to haul materiel for the Korean War. After a brief stint transporting grain to India, she was retired again. Last week the Red Oak, one of 101 Victory ships dragged out of mothballs for service in Viet Nam, was ready to sail again after a $400,000 refit and new coat of grey paint. For her rededication, Red Oak Mayor Joseph Tiffin flew to Portland, Ore., with a specially stitched town flag, which Captain Robert Blood will hoist when the ship...
Innuendo roars through Silencers, with nothing omitted save scrawling feelthy pictures on the screen. Now and then, Martin sleepily warbles a song parody, his way of adding sauce to all the gleeful violence, drunken driving and self-conscious smut. Chief compensation over the Ion? haul is Stella Stevens' zany, refreshing performance as a tourist who flees a conducted bus tour and plunges into escapades with the resolute air of a girl making every minute of her vacation count...
Even so, Indians often ignore available food. Though Kerala fishermen haul in tons of shrimp, lobster, mackerel and sardines each year from the fish-rich Arabian Sea, the vast majority of the catch is sold for export, and Keralans use the money to buy extra rice at exorbitant black-market prices. They also largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound in the state's lush tropical forests. And, though more Hindus discreetly eat meat, the vast majority in cow-rich India leave their beef on the hoof for religious reasons. Half of India...
Rhodesia has been equally ineffective in keeping oil from its black northern neighbor, Zambia, which until December had been totally dependent on Rhodesian Railways to haul its petroleum supplies from Mozambique ports...
...more than 10,000 tons of oil careered over the Great North Road last month, trucked in at flank speed by hastily assembled fleets of bruised Bedfords and long-haul Leylands with 25-ton trailers. The sides of the trucks are painted with such slogans as "Zambia Forever" and "Death to Ian Smith...