Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buccaneering days of the 17th century, Jamaica was the lustiest port of call on the Spanish Main. Out of old Port Royal, in its time the "wickedest city in Christendom," Henry Morgan and his marauding mates sailed to wreck and plunder. On their return, the pirates swaggered through the narrow streets with barrels of rum on their shoulders, harlots on their arms, daggers in their belts and ill-gotten pieces of eight in their pockets. An appalled visitor once described it as a place where "the body of a murdered man would remain in a dancing room until the dancing...
...tactful and sincere at the same time." Mrs. Bandaranaike, who confides that Ceylon's fortunes are in the hands of "angels and my late husband," has vigorously assisted the heavenly host by nationalizing Roman Catholic schools, the Bank of Ceylon, transport services, life insurance and the Port of Colombo. Last week the Prime Minister touched off one of the biggest government crises since she took office by announcing a 25% cut in the rice ration. In yet another attempt to ease Ceylon's formidable economic woes, her government last April seized almost 200 gas stations and oil depots...
Exports: Peanuts, cotton, rice. Per capita income: $33. U.S. aid (1961): $2,500,000. Also aided by Reds. No industry; 1960 break with Senegal cut off Mali from its port. Signs of disillusion with Red barter deals. Syphilis rate 15%, as in most of ex-French Africa...
...CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. (F.) Pop.: 1,227,000. Size: 238,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 8%. School attendance: 20%. College graduates: 10. Outside one real town, river port Bangui, primitive population untouched by West...
...Painter Alexander Brook, the first goal of an artist should be "to make each work more magical than the one before." This gets harder as a man gets older. But last week in the summer port of Ogunquit, Me., a new one-man show of 31 paintings by Brook shows that the magic has been pretty well distributed over a long lifetime. The show reaches back to 1924, ranges in subject from an affectionate portrait of a puppy, to broad, brooding landscapes, to snapshots of young girls caught at some moment of loneliness. Brook is a lusty personality who uses...