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...dismay, therefore, when Davies introduces as his hero an elderly hagiographer who has spent most of his life as a master at a Canadian boys' school. Dunstan Ramsay is a solitary man but not a recluse, one of those singlehanded voyagers who is happy enough to socialize in port, but who never spends much time there. The seas he is driven to cross are strange and not much traveled; his lifelong obsession is to comprehend the condition of sainthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solitary Voyage | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...meeting between taxi companies and the Port Authority will take place sometime next week to discuss the issue, but it will not be the first time the question has come...

Author: By Leonard S, | Title: Airport Police Crack Down on Cabbies | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

...This is not a new problem," said Port Authority Director Edward J. King, "and it will take eternal vigilance by the Port Authority, the police and the taxi-using public to keep it under control...

Author: By Leonard S, | Title: Airport Police Crack Down on Cabbies | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

...issue in the crackdown are cab drivers who take advantage of peak airport periods to carry multiple fares at flat rates to the downtown area. Massachusetts Port Authority regulations prohibit both multiple fare trips and the setting of flat rates without metering...

Author: By Leonard S, | Title: Airport Police Crack Down on Cabbies | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

...Russians are unmistakably on the verge of naval domination. They have helped develop the Indian port of Visakhapatnam and are adapting it for the possible use of Soviet submarines. On South Yemen's island of Socotra, which dominates the approach to the Red Sea, they are constructing a naval radio station and ammunition depot. On Mauritius they have been given harbor facilities. In addition, the Russians have signed fishing agreements with at least ten nations, stretching from Egypt to Indonesia, and along the East African coast they have set up a string of buoys which could be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: Cutting a Chain of Links | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

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