Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aiun is a capital of unpaved streets and adobe buildings, lacking proper port facilities, adequate airstrip or water supply for 15,000 Spanish soldiers. In its bazaar, tribesmen selling their beads and hammered silver listen to Arab-language broadcasts from Rabat, just as Moroccans before independence tuned in Cairo. In the surrounding countryside, the Spanish have pulled their garrisons out of many tiny outposts into four desert fortresses...
...impenetrable Sierra Maestra, where they had hidden for 13 months, poured the men of Cuban Rebel Chief Fidel Castro last week. Twenty miles out from the foothills, they surrounded the bustling sugar port of Manzanillo (pop. 100,000), attacked and halted Havana-bound trains and buses, burned automobiles, rice and sugar installations, then vanished at nightfall...
...blew unusually fast; the jet stream, its fast-moving core, was clocked at 170 m.p.h. But the mixing effect of the wind was almost nil. The Arctic kept its cold air and grew colder and colder as its heat radiated into space, while the U.S. stayed warm. The port of Green Bay, Wis. was open for navigation on Dec. 29, the first time since 1877. New England had weather 15° to 18° above normal, and such notorious cold spots as Montana were mild...
Into Madness. His own fight ends without any obvious meaning. Far from Allied planes and destroyers, his crippled submarine strikes a mine and sinks as it steams for port. Teichmann and 19 others put on escape lungs, reach the surface and float helplessly. A flight of gulls lowers, swoops hungrily at the eyes of a comrade Teichmann is trying to save. Exhausted, finally broken by the war, Teichmann slips into madness. Hours later, rescue boats save 9 of the 20 men. Novelist Ott does not say whether Teichmann is one of them. It does not matter...
Married. Helmut Dantine. 39, Austrian-born cinemactor (War and Peace); and Nicola Mae Schenck, 24, daughter of Cinemagnate (Loews, Inc.) Nicholas M. Schenck; he for the second time, she for the first; in Port Washington...