Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nice to win, but for Maroney it was nothing new. The 6'3", 200-pounder was one of the most sought after oarsmen in the country while he was at St. Joseph's Prep School and had already been tabbed as one of the fourth or fifth best port oars in the country this season from his scores in an Olympic Development Program workout...
Last summer I worked as a crewmember aboard several Texas Oil Company tankers, sometimes calling Port Arthur, Texas where both Gulf and Texaco have large refineries. My main interest at the time was filming a movie on oil pollution; Gulf, Texaco and the other big oil companies have confronted pollution with great aplomb in their advertising, but they have taken little action to change actual shipboard procedures such as cleaning cargo tanks at sea. There were no black officers aboard any of the ships I was on, though there were many unlicensed black seamen. Gulf, Texaco, Esso, and other major...
Employment policy aboard the ships reflects to a large extent policy ashore. Port Arthur is a community of some 70,000 people, about 47 per cent of whom are black, while only 18 per cent of the 3600 employees at the Gulf refinery and 20 per cent of the 5300 employees at Texaco are black. Only two or three blacks at each refinery are in executive or managerial positions...
Although both Gulf and Texaco are enormously wealthy and their refineries at Port Arthur are the city's main industry, neither company has made any substantial effort to improve conditions in the black community. Many blacks in Port Arthur live in run-down one-story clapboard buildings on the outskirts of town while the downtown area toward the new Jefferson City shopping center sparkles with modern Gulf and Texaco stations at nearly every other corner, like alternate squares on some garish checkerboard...
...talkative and gregarious, unlike his coach, who rations out words much like the Navy rations bath towels. He is the sort of athlete you want sitting in the stroke seat when Penn starts sprinting on your starboard side, and Harvard takes a quick twenty over to port. Calm, unexcitable...