Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel Bell, a city is "syncretistic" and New York is an exemplary "palimpsest." Shadows of that city's three historic "faces" remain part of its character: the 19th century port city; the "nervously swift" manufacturer at the turn of the century; and the settling place for "glass house" corporations in the 1950's. And with the mushrooming of the "culture hungry" class, Bell sees the "face" of the '60's and '70's forming: New York as the cultural city...
...article in the Belgrade literary monthly Delo, Dr. Mihajlo Mihajlov, a Yugoslav professor and translator of Russian literature, boldly reported that the first Russian camp was set up in 1921 near the Arctic port of Archangel, and sent "to death thousands of members of different revolutionary parties opposing the Soviets." Estimating that possibly 12 million Russians passed through Stalin's concentration camps, Mihajlov recalled: "Stalin's genocide is much older than that of Hitler...
Pajama Party. Trained at Xuanmai, a base near Hanoi, the infiltrators are given a big sendoff party, sometimes attended by North Viet Nam's military boss (and victor of Dienbienphu), General Vo Nguyen Giap. They are trucked to the port of Vinh for staging, thence southwest to the border area, where they turn in all personal effects, including letters, which could identify them. The infiltrators exchange their equipment for guerrilla gear (such as rubber sandals, mosquito netting) and doff uniforms for the black-pajama garb of the Viet Cong...
...only a quarter of Patent Office expenses. Under the President's recommendation, higher rates would add another $15 million. Also requested are higher inspection fees for tobacco, grain, cotton and naval stores (which would produce $7,600,000), for special customs services ($1,000,000), and for maritime port services...
...Alps to defeat the Romans in 218 B.C. had anyone attempted a mountain-hurdling task so complicated. In freezing temperatures and four-foot snowdrifts near the northern Italian town of Paluzza last week, workers prepared to blast out a tunnel for a 40-in. pipeline that will connect the port of Trieste with refineries in West Germany. The pipeline will require nearly four miles of tunnels, but most of its journey will have to be made, like Hannibal's, across the frozen peaks and deep valleys of the Alps. Scheduled to begin operating in 1967, the $150 million...