Word: port
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...atmosphere, literally and metaphorically-the distance between Cyprus and the Greek island of Rhodes is only half the distance from Athens. ALEXIS SOLOMOS Athens >TIME'S map "Danger Point" [March 20] illustrated the proximity of the Turkish fleet as opposed to the Greek fleet, then leaving home port in Greece for Rhodes, and was not designed to indicate territorial allegiances...
...Wallace Groves. In the late 1940s, Groves bought a small lumber company on Grand Bahama, then little more than a desert island. In 1955, in exchange for tax concessions and a 99-year lease on 50,000 acres of Crown land, he agreed to dredge a harbor, build a port city - Freeport - provide school, health and utility needs, and bring in industry. But industry was not interested. All Groves had forgotten, says an associate, was "to make the place livable." So he got 100,000 more Crown acres, agreed to build a luxury hotel and expand development of Freeport...
Died. The Rev. Joseph Timothy O'Callahan, 58, Jesuit priest aboard the carrier U.S.S. Franklin when it was set afire by Kamikaze pilots off Japan on March 19, 1945, who gave last rites, organized rescue parties, carried ammunition from blistering magazines, helped make it back to port with the heaviest casualty list in U.S. naval history (432 dead, 1,000 wounded), winner of the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain; of a ruptured aorta; in Worcester, Mass...
...neutralist pal, Marshal Tito, Algeria's President Ahmed ben Bella last week set off for home. By rights, Ben Bella should have flown 1,060 miles southwest to Algiers. Instead, his Russian-piloted Ilyushin-18 plane headed north and touched down at France's Melun air port, 26 miles from Paris. There, a helicopter was waiting to hustle Ben Bella to the Chateau de Champs for a conference with Charles de Gaulle...
...King George II who gave No. 10 to England, specifically to the Treasury. Since Prime Ministers are also First Lords of the Treasury, they have had their way-and their woes-with the building for 229 years. Walpole openly entertained his mistress there; Pitt happily tippled his port on the premises; and Disraeli penned his Endymion between parliamentary debates. But seven P.M.s refused to live in No. 10's cramped quarters; between 1847 and 1877, it was completely untenanted, and then Disraeli moved in only because his gout made the trip to his office too painful. During the blitz...