Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week it looked as if it might stay that way. After discussing shipping arrangements with Russian officials in the Black Sea port of Odessa, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Clarence D. Martin said: "I suspect they have done their buying for this season...
...often, despite a government's best efforts, jobs are simply not to be found. In the Cameroun port town of Douala, shop and office windows are festooned with signs reading "No help needed." Secondary-school graduates are willing to work three months without pay for a chance at a job. Young men as diligent as that will eventually get ahead-even if they have to storm the presidential palace, burn a minister's Mercedes or join the Union des Populations Camerounaises-a rebel group that has conducted the longest, bloodiest rebellion in Africa, a seven-year war that...
They live in a tin shack in the colored ghetto outside Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The white brother, Morris (J.D. Cannon), an intense, broody, mothering sort, keeps house for the pair. The black brother, Zachariah (James Earl Jones), is one of nature's children, open-faced and openhanded. He tends a park gate where he shoos away any colored child who tries to enter. Every night Morris readies a ritualistic footbath for Zach's raw, swollen feet. But in the realm of color, skin-deep is heartdeep and there is no balm for those abrasions...
...Port of Whittier [Feb. 21], with its excellent facilities, adverse weather, close proximity to Anchorage and the possible low price of $800,000, seems to me to be a ready-made nerve center for Arctic exploration. The National Science Foundation should certainly investigate this possibility...
Thomas Webb, a Washington representative for the Murchison family of Texas, told the committee that in 1961 Baker was responsible for finding a buyer for meat for the Murchison-bankrolled Haitian-American Meat & Provisions Co. (Hampco) of Port-au-Prince. For this, Webb said, Baker earned a ¼?-a-lb. "finder's fee." Later, when a Chicago firm, Packers Provision Co., bought Hampco's output, Baker began receiving a ⅛-a-lb. commission, though he had no part in getting Packers and Hampco together. Packers President William Kentor has said that Hampco "insisted" Baker be paid. Besides getting...