Word: portes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night before the armored unit set out, Israeli frogmen in boats with muffled engines moved quietly out to sea and headed for the small Egyptian naval base of Ras Sadat, twelve miles south of Port Suez. There the frogmen slid into the water and planted powerful charges under the hulls of two Russian-built Egyptian navy torpedo boats assigned to patrol that section of the gulf; the Egyptian craft blew out of the water...
...something themselves about the stoppages. Such strikes account for 95% of all work stoppages in Britain, and last year cost the country 4,500,000 man-days. Whether Feather will be able to redeem his pledge is uncertain. In August, 1,300 blast-furnacemen at a steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, ignored his efforts to end a three-week walkout that hammered steel output to a 17-month...
...develop their tracts, at costs running up to $4,000,000 per well. This will constitute a radical infusion of money into Alaska's economy, which up to now has been largely dependent on federal aid. A $900 million pipeline is planned to bring the oil to the port of Valdez for shipment by tanker to West Coast markets in the 1970s, just when Texas, Louisiana and California fields are expected to go into decline...
...scholarship. "A journalist transformed in middle age into the most venerable of professors," he became for generations of students the "supreme exponent of English lit." He was also the classic exemplar of the winetaster theory of literature. Saintsbury, indeed, wrote with equal learning and authority on poetry and port but, alas, as if they were the same sort of thing. Pundits who teach poetry as a matter of the palate-or of professional gain-naturally detest and fear a creative man of letters like Ezra Pound, to whom poetry was a passion in which the soul was engaged in mortal...
...Role in Space. The advent of the new ships could turn many inland cities-Memphis, Nashville, Tulsa and Little Rock, for example-into ports where ocean cargo can be handled. Even towns on shallow rivers could get a crack at foreign commerce, since the average draft of a barge is only eight feet. Tulsa officials already plan to spend $20 million in the next two years to build a port to be named Catoosa, from which they expect to ship oil field machinery destined for Europe. Arkansas grain distributors, who export 40% of the 100 million bushels of grain that...