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...Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which owns and operates the New York City area public transit system. He quit last May when Rocky was no longer Governor. Apparently in the few days before Ronan was appointed by the Governors of New York and New Jersey as the unsalaried head of the Port Authority of those two states, Rockefeller canceled the Ronan loans, which then totaled $510,000, and paid a gift tax of $331,000 on this debt cancellation...
...Brass Bands. At Lisbon's port, the scene was much the same last week as the troopship Niassa arrived, carrying 1,400 soldiers from Guinea-Bissau. There were no brass bands, nor for that matter were there any high-ranking government officials. One by one, as the soldiers were demobilized on ship, they walked off carrying homemade guitars, cardboard boxes or cheap suitcases with their belongings. Many sported T shuts with pictures of Amilcar Cabral, the assassinated Guinea liberation leader against whose cause they had so recently been fighting. Some, but by no means all, were enthusiastic about returning...
About the only hope for the Great Lakes is that long-divided dock workers, terminal operators and port authorities have formed an alliance to remedy some problems that are not rooted in the very nature of the seaway. They are asking the U.S. Maritime Administration for the same subsidies that are collected by the coastal shipping interests that compete with them. They also want moderation of the "Ship American" policy, which is mandated by the Merchant Marine...
...bikinis are rampant out here today..." The voice of color man Hoyt boomed from the transistor radios aboard the Vigilant as the people began moving to the port rail to watch the combatants circle the starting line awaiting the gun, which would signal ten minutes to the start of crucial race number three...
...been suffering from stress since her son Teddy's leg amputation for bone cancer last November. According to friends who saw her at a recent Kennedy family-sponsored tennis benefit in New York she was "a nervous wreck" despite a restful summer of sailing and sunning at Hyannis Port...