Word: portes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking for a better life, thousands of peasants pack up every month and head for the big cities, where they find only deeper poverty and despair. In the Northeast's bustling port of Recife, 40% of the city's 1,000,000 people live in squalid, malodorous mocambos (shanties) strung out along the city's Ca-piberibe River. There is no fresh water, sanitation or electric light, and crime and disease are as oppressive as the millions of horseflies that swarm everywhere. In Rio, more than 600,000 people-15% of the city's population-live...
Staunch Backs. About two-thirds of all Communist aid comes through North Viet Nam's principal port of Haiphong, free of any interference by U.S. Seventh Fleet warships patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin. Most of the Russians' oil and machinery land on Haiphong's always crowded docks; even the nearby Chinese ship most of their aid to Haiphong rather than send it overland. Since February, there has been a change in the pattern of traffic at Haiphong; fewer Chinese ships are arriving and, as if by agreement between the two countries, more Soviet ships are taking their...
...biggest change finds junior Ian Gardiner moving from the number two seat to stroke. The suave junior not only takes on the responsibility of setting the boat's pace, but has to adjust from rowing starboard side to rowing port...
...five junior Andy Larkin has retained his number six seat from last season, and junior Eric Sigward has moved up from four to five. That shift leaves Sigward on the starboard side in the German rigging which places bow, three, six, and stroke to port...
...said of Robert Browning, a man who had stayed to dinner: "Why doesn't that man stop talking?" and later withstood the awful eye of Prime Minister Gladstone as the original Grand Old Man asked after dinner: "This is very good port they have given me, but why have they given it to me in a claret glass?" After unanswerable questions like that, Bertie developed the confidence he needed to decide that New ton's calculus was "a tissue of fallacies" and to begin his historic collaboration with Alfred North Whitehead, his senior in college. That resulted, after...