Word: port
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Descendant of a well-to-do colonial Maryland family, Shriver does not consider himself wealthy, though he hardly has to scrimp. He rents a 30-acre estate in Rockville, Md., called "Timberlawn," just bought a house near the Kennedy summer compound in Hyannis Port for something under $200,000. As OEO director he earns $30,000, insists on better-than-average salaries for his staff- 23 top aides make more than $20,000, 40 others earn $15,000 or more. Though this has led to cracks about the "sweet smell of poverty," Shriver reasons that it takes good money...
...quietly, "have a destiny to suffer." Duvalier's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute (Creole for bogeymen) roam the country, soaking up blood money from businessmen, torturing and murdering suspected anti-Duvalieristes-sometimes even slaughtering whole families. Early this year, one mutilated corpse lay a whole day in the Port-au-Prince sun, as a grim lesson to Haitians...
...help lure back some of the country's moneywise mulattoes-as well as other investors and tourists-Papa Doc called a rare press conference last month in his palace in Port-au-Prince. "It is urgent," he said, "for every Haitian-wherever he is-to come home and work with the President and Cabinet and with every foreign investor that Haiti needs for its development. The Haitian soil belongs to every Haitian." The "explosive stage" of his revolution was over, Papa Doc promised, and now Haiti was entering the more humane "administrative stage...
...sure enough, last week both soldiers and Tonton Macoute were indeed less visible in Port-au-Prince. Cars traveling through the city were not stopped and searched. What's more, Papa Doc had even expressed an interest in visiting Argentina next August-a rare risk for any dictator afraid of losing...
Pounding Pain. A typical case is that of Ward B. Myers, 38, who was supervising a construction job in Port Angeles, Wash., when his right foot was mashed in a boring machine. The foot became infected, causing osteomyelitis, and surgeons in Seattle's Swedish Hospital spent almost a year trying to save the leg. Myers endured twelve operations and almost constant pain-"like a toothache, it just kept pounding away." Early last month Dr. Ernest M. Burgess, whose team has had more experience with instant prostheses than any other U.S. surgeons, decided that the time had come to amputate...