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...rates for shipping their orders by air. Air cargo companies, which had suffered from the overall airlines malaise (see story, page 80), were doing record business, transporting loads that included heavy machinery, transistor radios, beer, and even hogs for stud. The only alternative for importers was to find a port just outside the U.S., where goods could be off-loaded and shipped by train or truck to their destinations. Ship captains are permitted to drop cargoes at any "port of convenience" in the event of a strike. Many have decided to do just that, thereby considerably changing life around Vancouver...
Like the wage-price freeze, the strike has caught many people in an unexpected and vulnerable position. Says Charles Nevil, whose Los Angeles import-export firm deals in swimming pools: "I have paid for a lot of equipment, and now I have to pay storage charges to the Port of Los Angeles. Meanwhile, I've had cancellations on some orders." But while import-export firms bear the brunt of the strike, its effects reach far down into the U.S. economy. "We had one good order from Japan for electrical goods made by a St. Louis firm," says San Francisco...
SAVANNAH, GA., is a river city near the coast that has been restored to its antebellum splendor-except for its bustling port. In fact, so passionately did city fathers court a giant paper mill during the 1930s that they obligated the city to "protect and save" the mill "from any claims, demands or suits for the pollution of air or water." In the event of a suit, the city agreed to pay the first $5,000 of the company's legal costs. Today the paper mill has been joined by a clutch of chemical companies and other industries...
...University of Alabama Law School. McKay prospered for years in El Paso, where he and his partner, Morris ("Red") Bell, arranged flights to Juárez for their clients from all over the U.S. Now Bell works out of Miami, while McKay hangs his shingle in the Port-au-Prince offices of IBO tours, which is owned by the Minister of Interior and National Defense, Luckner Cambronne. The arrangement is more than coincidental. The Haiti statute provides specifically that one travel agency must be in charge of informing the Ministry of Justice of all divorce cases. Not surprisingly, Cambronne...
...seven primitive tribesmen from Western Papua were haled into a Port Moresby court where they were charged with improperly and indecently interfering with a corpse. A fellow villager had been killed in a family feud, and they had volunteered to dispose of the remains. Their method: to cut up the body, cook it in a well-thickened stew...