Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seated in a cushioned wicker chair on his Hyannis Port lawn, the President of the U.S. submitted to a taped television interview by CBS's Walter Cronkite. Beforehand, presidential aides had suggested that Cronkite ask questions about the crisis in South Viet Nam. He did-and President Kennedy was ready with some remarkable replies...
...that done, the President departed Washington for a weekend at Hyannis Port and a family party, which he likes even more than state shindigs. This one celebrated the 75th birthday of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. As a result of his 1961 stroke, Old Joe can speak only haltingly, and cannot write at all. Despite his handicaps, he is pretty chipper. He rises early each morning, often goes for an after-breakfast ride with Niece Anne Gargan. At night he sometimes watches a movie in the theater that is part of his house...
...AGRARIAN REFORM. Since his last re port a year ago, Lopez Mateos has distributed some 5,000,000 acres of land to peasants-more than many Mexican Presidents parceled out in their entire terms. Agriculture and livestock output, still the heart of the economy, showed a 5.3% gain in 1962, though many peasants, still impoverished, remain "by far the country's most fundamental problem...
Immense projects are sprouting around the world?a city for 500,000 refugees outside Karachi; two complete mining towns at Puerto Ordaz and Ciudad Piar, Venezuela; a new port area for Mombasa, Kenya; a French satellite city outside Toulouse to house 100,000 people?in which the planners are doing as much as the politicians and statesmen to determine how men will live tomorrow. And the planner who has the most to plan with is the man in the Bentley: William Leonard Pereira, 54, an architect from Chicago who is pinning more and more of the state of California...
...often needs several weeks to dock, unload, load and steam away again. At Santos recently, one ship was 60 days loading 16,000 tons of corn. By the time the ship finally weighed anchor, kernels of corn that had trickled into deck crevices had sprouted into vigorous plants. As port costs spiral, more and more foreign ships steam past Brazil's congested harbors, and dockworkers are now beginning to complain about lack of work. Their inevitable reaction: strikes for more...