Word: ported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARTUR RUBINSTEIN, who celebrated his 75th birthday last month, is a great connoisseur of life. Even his recordings evoke the aroma of fine cigars, the company of good friends, a glass of old port at bedtime. VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, who has not played in public since 1953, is more inscrutable. His humor is shy, his pathos and his beliefs are strong. Yet the two share a comradely distinction: they are the last of the great romantic pianists, and like Spanish-American War veterans, they live in an age that prizes them without necessarily knowing the grandeur of their tradition...
...house-hungry, comfort-starved Alaska, Shangri-La is a place called POW. Officially, POW is the 400-acre Port of Whittier, located on an arm of ice-free Prince William Sound and back-dropped by the glaciated peaks of the Chugach Mountains, which provide some of the world's wildest, most breathtaking scenery...
Established as an emergency defense port by the U.S. Army in 1943, it cost $55 million, has now been declared surplus property by the Pentagon; the Army wants to unload it, perhaps for as little...
...regular jobs, Defferre works a tight-packed, 15-hour day, both in his big, chandeliered mayor's office overlooking the old port of Marseille and at the offices of Le Provencal, where he serves as the newspaper's director. His chauffeured car is equipped with a hooded light so that he can read dispatches without disturbing the driver's vision. Fitting a presidential campaign into so rigid a schedule seems simple to hard-driving Gaston Defferre. "It is all," he says, "a question of organization...
...only in Kwilu but also in Unité Kasaienne to the east, and in Kwango province to the west. The government's biggest immediate concern was that they might cut off the Kasai River, through which the Congo's copper from Katanga currently travels to the Atlantic port of Matadi...