Word: portes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Angry Hornets. Beulah's freshest fury was expended on the dun-colored delta of the Rio Grande and the tiny ports that dot the Gulf Coast. Port Isabel (pop. 4,000), a shrimp-fishing village, was smashed by 150 m.p.h. winds; only a lighthouse and a newly built brick bank were left undamaged, along with Captain G. D. Kennedy, who with his wife and his handmade 60-ft. shrimp boat rode out the storm with diesel engines and good seamanship...
...Boston architect John F. Collins, the city's outgoing mayor. Former Redevelopment Administrator Edward J. Logue. Logue, who is not a native Bostonian, sees the city as most outsiders do. He'd like to keep on building and revitalizing the downtown and Back Bay Central Business Districts, the old port of Boston, and other decaying neighborhoods close to the city's center...
...targets not yet hit, many will probably be bombed in time. The most likely remaining targets: the power station and railyards at Lao Cai, an important supply link with China; three MIG fields near Hanoi and one at Haiphong; and the dock facilities at Hon Gai, the only unscathed port...
...least, they will not try to deny access to Haiphong from the sea by bombing its dock areas or mining its harbor-and thus risking a confrontation with Russia if its ships are hit by a U.S. attack. Instead, the U.S. planners intend to seal off access to the port from the land side, hoping that Soviet and other materials will simply pile up on the docks...
...serious accidents, that has been the legal limit since 1926. How much can a person drink before his blood alcohol level reaches .05%? Campbell cites an Australian experiment in which ten prominent citizens drank two glasses of white wine, two glasses of red wine, a glass of port, and a brandy or liqueur before, after and during a four-course dinner. In eight out of the ten, the blood alcohol stayed below...