Word: port
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...lyric from the score of The Unsinkable Molly Brown-"Nobody wants me down like I wants me up"-had special meaning last week along the waterfront in Mobile, Ala. To make way for a $15 million port expansion, the city fathers decided to demolish a five-story riverfront warehouse. A TV crew was invited to watch the fun as engineers planted 150 Ibs. of dynamite around the foundation. Then a mighty roar and a cloud of dust-but only the first floor was blown out. The rest dropped onto the foundation intact. The next day workmen tried again. And again...
...independent. Britain still claims only a clutch of 13 tiny dependencies, including the Falkland Islands, the British Virgins, Anguilla, St. Helena, Bermuda, Pitcairn Island and the uninhabited British Antarctic Territory. Britain's two most important holdings are Gibraltar, which Spain would like to reclaim, and the free-trade port of Hong Kong...
...about the size of Connecticut.* The prevailing west winds are so fierce that the Falklands have no trees, and, rumors of offshore oil notwithstanding, there are virtually no natural resources except grass. There are also no newspapers or television sets and no paved roads outside the little capital of Port Stanley (pop. 1,050). And in pre-Argentine days, not even the town jail was locked. To Fred Strebeigh, a tutor at Yale who paid a long visit to the islands, Police Chief Terry Peck explained: "We haven't got hardened criminals here...
...aides in London were calling a "little local difficulty." But suddenly the fight became all too real. Some 2,500 Argentine troops, backed by an aircraft carrier, three missile destroyers and other warships, swooped down on a scattering of chilly South Atlantic islands. Waiting helplessly near the settlement of Port Stanley was a defense force consisting of a mere 40 British Royal Marines. After three hours of sporadic gunfire, in which one invader was killed and two others were wounded, the battle was over. Argentine forces also invaded the island of South Georgia. The British announced that a small contingent...
...title role is taken by an animal thought to be extinct by the Zenkalis, an innocent and exploitable people. Their belief is shared by a young Briton, Peter Foxglove, sent to the island by his venal uncle, Sir Osbert, in order to pave the way for a military port and airstrip. But in classic anticolonial style, he crosses over to side with the natives. Peter's conversion is aided by a cast variegated in color and comedy: a king built on the order of a mahogany tree; his impudent adviser Hannibal, who addresses his majesty as Kingy; the irreverent...