Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are at least three versions of what happened when the U.S. Navy's LC-3 1090 nosed into the Russian-held "free port" last week to bring official dispatches to U.S. Consul General Harry Merrell Benninghoff. Aboard the unarmed naval vessel were a U.S. businessman and two U.S. correspondents, LIFE'S Mark
Incident or no incident, Nuncle Sam, old before his time, had been given the mitt. If a similar incident had happened to a Russian ship in a U.S.-controlled port, Soviet indignation would have blown the turrets off the Kremlin...
Dewitt Peters, a Californian who had moved to Port-au-Prince for his health, started Haiti's first art school three years ago, just to make himself useful. As soon as his Centre d'Art opened its doors, self-taught painters came crowding happily in for instruction. Peters stared at their pink, purple, pale green and yellow pictures of murders and bouquets (mostly painted with furniture enamel on scraps of cardboard), decided the best he could do for such talented pupils was to supply them with materials and let them paint...
...bobbies with torches (British for flashlights). At Wembley Stadium, 4,000 hockey fans, marooned for the night, snuggled against one another in the grandstand. At New Cross race track the greyhounds lost sight of the rabbit. In the Channel the S.S. America groped and bellowed mournfully, unable to make port. Other ships ran aground. In Southampton, Ivor Thomas and his fiancée Elithia Zinck-just in from Bombay-drove off a dock and were drowned...
Through the grant of a free port at Chilean Valparaiso, Perón got another thing he dearly wanted: an outlet on the Pacific. There Argentines planned soon to build port installations and a big meatpacking plant. Another result of the accord: a vehicular tunnel will be driven right through the Andes...