Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PORT AUTHORITY HELIPORT offers a $6.50, four-minute whirlybird's-eye squint. The flight is best taken at night when the fair becomes a fairyland of colored lights and fireworks...
Sorcerer's Apprentice. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, of German and Cherokee Indian parentage, Rauschenberg served as a naval corpsman until the end of World War II. A talent for sketching led him to the Kansas City Art Institute, then on to Paris. In 1948 he read in TIME that the greatest art disciplinarian in the U.S. was Josef Albers, and returned to study with him at North Carolina's Black Mountain College. "I consider Albers the most important teacher I've ever had," says Rauschenberg, "and I'm sure he considers...
...PORT AUTHORITY HELIPORT offers a $6.50, four-minute whirlybird's-eye squint. The flight is best taken at night when the fair becomes a fairyland of colored lights and fireworks...
...needed a victory more than Moise Tshombe, and last week he could revel in a big one. His army had retaken Albertville, the first major city captured by the rebels, who for more than two months had used its Lake Tanganyika port to ferry in arms and supplies from their headquarters in Burundi...
...soften up the city, B-26 fighter-bombers, piloted by anti-Castro Cubans supplied by Washington, relentlessly blasted strategic targets. Then a force of 1,000 Congolese army troops launched a two-prong invasion which caught the rebels by surprise. Coming from the north, one column overran the port area and airfield. The other column skirted the city, attacked from the south. When the rebels tried to counterattack, a government armored car's machine gun was waiting for them. The battle raged on for eight hours before the rebels finally fled, but it was one-sided...