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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right place." Its clear, deep, coral-bottomed natural harbor easily accommodates big ships. Since the completion last year of a 42-in. pipeline that runs 160 miles from Eilat across the Negev to the Mediterranean port of Ashkelon, the big hole is ordinarily choked with tankers waiting to off-load oil. Last week one such ship became a special attraction for vacationers at seaside motels. While moving through the narrow strait of Babel Mandeb (Gate of Tears), which separates the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, the 78,000-ton tanker Coral Sea had been attacked by a speedboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Ambush at the Gate of Tears | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

Clearly, Derek Bok will not manipulate, or try to manipulate, the concentrated power base President Pusey developed over the past two decades. He fully intends to distribute he work load of Harvard's vast financial increases and turn himself to education...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Changing of the Guard... | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...strike. The floors were full of grease from leaky machines; overhead conveyors had no screens to catch falling parts. The aisles were so narrow and cluttered that forklift trucks and workers often could not squeeze by one another; one such truck recently crashed because of faulty brakes, toppling its load and killing the driver. For blacks, there was the added impact of racism. The jury heard of Negroes being called "boy," of whites advancing rapidly to foreman, while one black foreman said it had taken him 18 years to get the white shirt that all foremen wear. One white worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Hell in the Factory | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

Miraculous Mayonnaise. In a similar case, a German merchant is being tried in Hamburg on charges of illegally pocketing $8,000,000 in subsidies. His 500-ton cargo ships would load up with maize flour (30% subsidy), and in mid-sea they would turn around and head for home. Their expensive cargoes were reimported as cattle feed (no tariff), and the journey would begin all over again. Other revolving traders, according to EEC tariff sheriffs, export melted butter (100% subsidy) that on the return trip miraculously becomes mayonnaise (no tariff). All that is needed for the transformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMON MARKET: The Agro-Frauders | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

That the Faculty permit graduate students in all departments to work on a part-time basis while retaining proportional scholarship assistance, working at not less than a two-course load per term...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Faculty Readily Approves All Proposals on Women | 5/26/1971 | See Source »

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