Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orange Streamer. It was a mercy mission to save the life of Seabee Bethel McMullen of Port Hueneme, Calif., who had fallen from the second story of the McMurdo base fire station and landed so heavily that he nearly scalped himself and suffered cerebral concussion and a fractured spine. Because his legs were paralyzed, McMullen was placed in traction, and word was flashed to Washington that an immediate operation was necessary to save his life. There are no surgeons among the reduced 215-man winter staff on the icecap, and the Navy ordered a U.S. surgical team to risk...
There is still a smattering of opposition to Duvalier in Haiti. Once in a while someone scratches "Caca Doc" (a Creole obscenity) instead of Papa Doc on the wall, and in a Port-au-Prince bar last week a sodden upper-class mulatto suddenly raised his voice: "How long must we stand here and suffer and be killed?" But most Haitians have resigned themselves to a numbing life under Duvalier. The dictator's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute roams the country ferreting out opposition and collecting "donations" from terrified businessmen. Even Duvalier's own henchmen live in mortal...
...Port Chester...
...more often, around town in Washington and Manhattan, and she appears rested, relaxed, and more beautiful than ever as she smiles and chats with family and friends. At week's end, with her sister Princess Radziwill, Caroline and John Jr., she flew to a family reunion in Hyannis Port, and to appear in a transatlantic TV birthday tribute with Britain's Harold Macmillan, Berlin's Willy Brandt, Ireland's Sean Lemass...
Both New York State and the Port of New York Authority show movies that are the ultimate in wide screens, being 360° around. Audiences stand in the center. The device works well, and the state's show is a bit better than the Authority's. Riding in a car up a highway, you can look out the back window and see the road receding, or look forward and feel its onrush, while fields and trees stream by on either side...