Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain's Paradise. Alec Guinness as a ferryboat captain who manages to have a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...
...Captain's Paradise. Alec Guinness as a ferryboat captain who manages to have a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...
...every Italian town. Lost in World War II and promised to Italy once again by the famed U.S.-Britain declaration of 1948, the territory of Trieste is not yet within Italy's reach; the U.S.-Britain declaration of Oct. 8 gives her a lien on Zone A-the port of Trieste and the northern section of the territory -but it is still to be put into effect...
...sight. Probably no more than half a dozen Portuguese have been asked to sit at Salazar's table. He has two adopted daughters, 20 and 16. But he is a confirmed bachelor; there is no woman in his life. His drinking is confined to occasional sips of port, usually diluted; he allows no smoking in his presence...
Paint Every Two Years. For all its fiscal stability, Portugal is still a poor country where initiative withers in the gloom of resignation. The people who grow Portugal's olives, make its port, strip its cork, net and pack its sardines, mine its rich wolfram ore deposits, live in limpidly beautiful villages with white-painted cottages (a 1949 Salazar decree requires a new paint job every two years) amidst some of the world's grandest scenery. But Dictator Salazar has never balanced his people's household budgets. Poverty and disease are widespread. Illiteracy...