Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French tricolor and proclaimed himself emperor of the world's first black republic. Nine years of bloody rebellion had, in fact, led to the extermination of Haiti's white population. Today Christophe's flag, a somber red and blue banner, still flies over the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince--a reminder of a painful past...
...annual capacity to 1,500,800 autos and minibuses. At its Wolfsburg headquarters, Volkswagen is building a new 400-acre plant, and at Kassel 2,500 workers are bustling to complete another 1,400-acre plant. Now Volkswagen has decided to build a fifth plant at the North Sea port of Emden, where the projected output of 500 autos a day will be used solely for export. Construction begins next month...
None of these feuds matched the battle from which Port Elizabeth was recovering last week. There 50,000 white fans were on hand to watch South Africa's Springboks face Australia in the final match of this year's rugger world series; South Africa, which has held the championship for nearly 50 years, was behind two games to one. This was quite all right with the crowd of 5,000 nonwhites, which inside its segregated enclosure felt no sympathy for the locals. With the visitors ahead in this final match, the nonwhites cheered so loudly that the puzzled...
Possibly hinting that nonwhites may be barred from all stadiums, Foreign Minister Eric Louw thundered that "active measures are necessary to prevent this sort of thing," which, he complained, "is giving South Africa a bad name overseas." As for Port Elizabeth, the authorities there decided that the wise course would be to sell no more beverages in bottles-and to double the admission price for nonwhites at future games...
...Berlin held a bit of nostalgia, for as a schoolgirl she had visited the city. Besides, she said, she wanted to see again the city that had given her son such a tumultuous welcome. But the visit was short. By week's end she was back in Hyannis Port to join her three sons for the quiet family celebration of Joseph Kennedy's 75th birthday (see THE NATION...