Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adjoining colony of French Guinea, people feel differently. In the capital city of Conakry, a once sleepy banana port that is now studded with French-built skyscrapers, Premier Sekou Touré thundered a loud "No!" Cried Sekou Touré: "We will vote no to a community which is just the French Union rebaptized, that is to say, old merchandise with a new ticket. Beginning Sept. 29, we will be an independent country. We will take entire and total responsibility for our affairs...
...tiger on the scent, Task Force 77 stalked around the island of Formosa. Spread out across the glittering sea were 17 ships deployed around the strike carriers Midway and Lexington. Ahead and on the flank prowled four destroyers, listening for sonar pings. Off to port, screened by six more destroyers, was the carrier Princeton, an antisubmarine hunter-killer. Far to the west, 1,000-m.p.h. F8Us swept along the China coast, their sidewinder missiles inscribed with obscene messages to the Communists. "We make lots of big radar blips," said one of Midway's pilots...
...transistor radios, automobile parts, nylons and U.S. cigarettes. The Pakistanis, too pleased at plugging the hole to begrudge Gwadar its last killing, ran up their green and white flag and announced that they hope to develop the place as a navy and air base, eventually to deepen its shallow port until it ranks after Karachi as the republic's second seaport...
Fred Donner, the new boss of General Motors, has seldom spoken for publication in his 32 years at G.M., has operated as a financial expert as quietly as he lived-in a modest, middle-class home in Port Washington, Long Island, the type he could buy with about four weeks' salary. Last week, in the first interview since he was named G.M. chairman, Donner spelled out his ideas to TIME Correspondent George Bookman with thin-lipped determination to let people know that he is far more than a mere book balancer, hopes to prove that he is as forceful...
Over Text. In Port Arthur, Texas, the Don Drive-in Theater advertised that its "Back-to-School" program would include "Hot Rod Rumble, Portland Expose, Teenage Doll, The Come On, Crime in the Streets, Young Guns, plus Glamour Gals of Burlesque...