Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accompanying Secretary of State Dean Rusk on his Russian trip, Western newsmen last week got their first glimpse of Nikita Khrushchev's seaside hideaway. It made the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port look like a Boy Scout bivouac...
...could you tell the President's press secretary was on the Hyannis Port Golf Club course? A. You could hear his drive bounce off the clubhouse...
...From a New York City schools re port: "High transiency pupils who enter low transiency schools evidently constitute a population somewhat different from that of high transiency pupils who enter high transiency schools." Possible meaning: kids who move around a lot vary according to the turnover rates of the schools they enter...
...discriminatory charges are one reason why U.S. exporters are also being nudged out of "third markets" by Europeans and Japanese who benefit from lower rates. Though Veracruz is nearly three times as far from Germany as it is from New York, a German exporter can ship plasticizers to that port for $43 a ton, v. $53.61 for an exporter from New York. The difference in charges is particularly damaging to U.S. exports of cheap, bulky products for which freight makes up much of the final price...
...Dominant Role. Then Schlesinger set forth in new directions. This spring he committed $20 million to six major high-rise developments in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, and earmarked $100 million more to be spent in the next five to seven years. Included in the plans: a giant business center containing twin 15-story office buildings, a tower of 100 apartments and a 250-car parking lot. Before a shovel turned, Schlesinger had leased 60% of the space...