Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Wisconsin-trained Soviet apologist, Gunawardena used his powerful position to force nationalization of Colombo's port and bus systems and collectivization of many of the island's fertile paddy fields. Now he was setting up an island-wide system of cooperatives frankly dedicated to his declared objective: "All private enterprise must totally disappear...
...case of a witty Italian golf pro named Guido Panzini, it was a phone call from the U.S. Immigration Service. "We've been watching the Jack Paar Show," an immigration official told NBC. "Where can we find this guy Panzini? We've got no record of his port of entry...
Swedish granite originally designed for Manhattan's Lever House (the budget ran out) and a torchlike form in Greek marble, planned as a 30-ft, focal point for the International Arrivals building at Idlewild Airport (the New York Port Authority turned it down). Often, Noguchi complains, "architects want something that is timely. I want to get back to the real problem of sculpture and do something timeless...
Brazil had little to lose in the try. Roughly equal in size to the U.S., it was still a poor, nonindustrial, coffee-based country after World War II. Now Brazil has a spreading highway net, modernized railroads, more than $1 billion worth of new power dams, improved port facilities, even a $100 million new capital in the interior-Brasilia-that focuses the nation's eyes on the untapped west. Along with this public investment, a private industrial giant has grown up at the lively pace of the sambas that are played in some factories to keep production hopping. Samples...
Hopefully the Journal will continue on to further issues; and it would be worthy emulation if other Houses initiated similar projects. Giving recognition to good student papers is as productive an outlay of Ford money as are port and sherry at tutorial dinners. Recognition of solid "fledgling scholarship" has benefits for both contributors and readers. The experiment should be repeated both by Adams and other Houses...