Word: port
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Calm in the Dark. Ky was just as frank in Honolulu with Johnson. He publicly urged the U.S. to bomb the port of Haiphong, insisted Saigon would never negotiate with the Viet Cong, rejected the Geneva accords as a basis for negotiations-all points on which Johnson disagrees with him. "I know," said Ky, "that at times your advisers lose patience with us. But I don't think it is any secret that at times we lose patience with your advisers." It is a frankness the U.S. appreciates and needs in Viet Nam politics-not least because...
Bostonians can point with pride to the fact that Boston as a port predated the United States as a nation by some 135 years. Indeed, by the early 1700's registered tonage had placed it in the ranks of the first five seaports of the world. It now ranks a mere eighteenth in the United States alone. Old engravings show proper Boston ladies in crinoline and bonnets walking along the docks, dwarfed by rows upon rows of masts and sails. Now only Old Ironsides at its dreary berth in Charlestown is left to remind the city of what it once...
...foreign trade. When domestic trade came to be handled almost entirely by railroads and trucks, Boston had to compete for the increasingly-needed foreign trade with the already established business and commercial center of the nation. (This, despite the fact that Boston is the nearest North Atlantic port to Europe, Africa, and the east coast of South America...
...prime-ministership by wider margins than his 1960 squeak into Oxford's chancellorship. "There's nothing most dons [professors] like better than a good bitchy election," observed the Sunday Times. Last week the bitchiest one in years had Oxford-and the nation -twittering as the port was passed...
...rising export trade made possible by new efficiencies has also created a need for big new coal harbors all along the Queensland and New South Wales coasts. At Port Kembla, for example, an $11 million facility loads ships at a 2,000-ton-an-hour rate, has cut loading time from four days to one. Cheaper coal makes Australia a competitive exporter, principally to Japan, which last year took 7,000,000 tons for steelmaking. U.S. coal still accounts for 48% of Japanese imports, but the Australian share has climbed to 30% and undersells U.S. coal...