Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...34th to 42nd Street between Eight and Eleventh Avenues, offers an unusual selection of Arab, Lebonese and Greek nightspots. Most of these have either a minimum or cover charge, but for a little more than a dollar you can sit at the bar of the Egyptian Gardens or the Port Said, sip ritsina and contemplate dancers through a thick veil cigarette smoke...
Rocks & Bullets. In the big port city of Guayaquil, in Andean towns, and finally in the capital of Quito itself, angry students and workers raced through cobbled streets stoning police and overturning cars. Egging on the mobs were the usual Communist agitators and one important political figure, Ecuador's Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena, 42, an aristocrat turned leftist, who pointedly ignored Adlai Stevenson's visit last June, flew off instead to Moscow and returned calling Nikita Khrushchev "my friend." From his seat presiding over the Senate, Arosemena denounced the taxes and called Velasco Ibarra "a dictator...
President Pusey met with Kennedy in June to plan for the library. Kennedy was debating among Boston, Cambridge, and Hyannis Port for possible sites, until he revealed recently that he had approved a riverside plot at Harvard...
...bulk of California production still goes into the sweet dessert wines such as port, sherry and muscatel, especially the cheap versions known as "Sneaky Pete" consumed by impoverished alcoholics ("Let's not call them winos," says Gallo, who sells a lot of such stuff). But the premium vintners are heartened by the fact that table wine is getting an increasing share of the total market. In 1957, for example, all U.S. vintners shipped 143.3 million gallons, of which 93.6 million were dessert wines and 40.8 million table wines. Last year, as total domestic shipments climbed to 152.5 million gallons...
...short run, what raised New Zealand's hopes the most was Holyoake's report that the Kapuni gas carried with it a substantial quantity of light oil which, if it can be fed into the $56 million refinery now under construction at the North Island port of Whangarei, would help reduce the nation's annual bill of more than $50 million for imported oil and gasoline...