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...largest as well, and it feeds now off of what it was as much as what it is. It's still an old city-most of its residential areas probably look much like they ded 50 years ago-and its second-biggest source of income, besides the port, is tourism. All this bothers the growth advocates a great deal; they like to attract the tourists, of course (the preservationists hate tourists) but they also like to wood industry and talk about how New Orieans is falling behind other Southern cities, a failure usually ascribed to a lack of dynamic leadership...
David W. Davis, University budget consultant, will assume the directorship of the Massachusetts Port Authority July 17, the Massport board of directors announced last week...
...said his first tasks will be to find more business for the Port of Boston, increase the Massport's borrowing capacity, improve the Port Authority's relationship with neighboring Logan Airport communities and stabilize the longshoreman problem...
...relationship between Logan Airport and its neighboring communities of East Boston and Winthrop, whose citizens "greatly dislike the Port Authority for some good reasons, and some bad, must be improved for political reasons; it is important to serve those people." Davis said...
...economy of the Grenadines-and even of more "developed" areas, like the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands-is much affected by chartering. Hotels and restaurants on the more remote islands depend entirely on the nights yachtsmen pass ashore, and last year bareboaters spent at least $3 million during their port stops. All the same, shore facilities tend to be primitive, and there is no need to sleep or eat on land. The boats come self-sufficient: overhauled, clean, tanked up, stocked with food...