Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that is Europe today. Thick-walled 17th century fortresses, built by the great French engineer Vauban, and a toweringly spired Gothic cathedral look down on postwar synthetic-rubber factories and petrochemical plants. Although 300 miles from the North Sea, Strasbourg is France's largest port for exports; Common Market-bred prosperity has all but erased old fears that the city might once again become the object of French-German rivalry. TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers recently visited Strasbourg and filed this report...
...industrial development of the scenic coastline to prevent environmental damage. The measure has already stirred heated controversy throughout the state, but it has drawn little attention elsewhere, although one section of the bill may have effects far beyond the shores of Maine. It bans the establishment of deepwater oil ports anywhere in the state except Portland, where the existing port is already operating at capacity...
...fare alone for Dayton-New York and New York-London tickets purchased separately. In addition, Pan Am clerks in London, Paris and Rome will act as Allegheny ticket agents for overseas passengers who want to go on to, say, Detroit after getting off a Pan Am plane at a port of entry...
...damage in the North is actually greater because of the concentrated U.S. bombing campaigns. Most of North Viet Nam's electric-generating capacity was destroyed, its railroad lines cut and its highways disrupted. Work has only just begun on repairing the heavy damage to the docks and other port facilities in Haiphong (and removing the mines the U.S. laid there). An obvious initial task will be to clear away the rubble. For rebuilding, the basic need is money to buy bricks, concrete, tools and machinery...
...first female deputy port warden in the U.S., Joellen Natow, 29, patrols Los Angeles harbor, checks the handling of flammable cargoes, and keeps an eye out for thieves, drug smugglers and illegal aliens. She has mastered the use of the .38-cal. revolver she carries, as well as such mysterious port argot as: "There's a camel loose in the channel; get a sea gull to pick it up." Translation: "A wharf pile is afloat; get a refuse boat to pick...