Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December, Soyuz 26 was launched and it successfully reached the space station. A week later controllers could breathe a collective sigh of relief. During a space walk outside the ship, Grechko inspected the other port and reported it to be in perfect order...
...part of incoming Japanese. They have asked for permission to raise eels and harvest seaweed around Saipan. A more grandiose scheme calls for coffee, rice and frogs to be raised on Tinian, just south of Saipan. Farther away, on Palau, Japanese investors plan to build a $325 million supertanker port if they get permission from local chiefs...
Having a backyard ski slope gives Susan Blakely (The Towering Inferno) a lift. Installed in the driveway of her Los Angeles home, the fake flakes on her port-a-slope enable the model-turned-actress to prepare for her new movie role as a ballet skier. Susan, 28, is taking lessons in 360° turns and crossovers. The script of the film, Free Style, is "heavy and touching," she says. It is about a world champion ballet skier who feels she is past her prime...
...city that care forgot," tourism has traditionally been the second biggest money-spinner after its port, the nation's second busiest. The French Quarter, its major magnet, is a trap, not an attraction, a mart of sleazy sex shows, watered whisky and jaded jazz...
Crashing through choppy seas on a misty morning came the four-year-old 330,000-ton supertanker Venoil. It was carrying 250,000 tons of crude oil from the Iranian petroleum port at Kharg Island and was bound for Nova Scotia. At 9:39, the Venoil plowed into another ship. As coincidence would have it, the second ship was Venoil's sister Venpet, traveling in ballast in the opposite direction. Both supertankers had been built at the same yard in Japan at a cost of $28 million each; both were owned by the Bethlehem Steel Corp., and chartered...