Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jacqueline Kennedy was about to celebrate her 34th birthday with the President on Squaw Island near Hyannis Port, Mass. But over at nearby Otis Air Force Base Hospital, the impending arrival of another Kennedy had everybody flapping. When reporters discovered a sealed-off ten-room wing at the hospital, they asked if it was for Jackie. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger puffed of course not, but then the Air Force confessed that it was, too, and took newsmen in to see what it called "a regularly scheduled refurbishing" costing $5,000. Newsmen quickly found sources who explained that the air-conditioning...
...Panama-co-owned with Continental Oil, and probably the biggest investment there since the canal-processes oil from the tankers of his National Bulk Carriers and other Ludwig lines. Recently Ludwig planted 1,000,000 orange, lemon and lime trees in Panama; now he is carving out a port near the plantation, intends to freeze and can the juice right on board one of his ships. All these interests have naturally steered him into real estate, and he has property holdings from mid-Manhattan to Bermuda, where he is building a new hotel...
...floor of the Red Sea, 45 feet below the surface near Port Sudan, the seven inhabitants of an underwater village celebrated last week the end of a full month beneath the waves. For the village's mayor, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 53, co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung that made modern skindiving possible, it was a double-barreled occasion. Down on the bottom, he celebrated his 26th wedding anniversary, and his wife Simone dropped in with a cake in a waterproof container...
First hydrofoil craft to enter regular commuter service in the U.S. is the good ship Albatross, which last week made her maiden voyage on the Port Washington, L.I.-Wall Streen run. Departure time: 8:20 a.m. She was laden with suburban-dwelling executives, plus a tape recorder, individual transistor radios, an electric shaver, ship-to-shore telephone, champagne and high hopes. But on the planned 50-minute trip from Club Capri Marina to lower Manhatten, virtually nothing went right...
...footing and slipped overboard. It was 9:55 a.m. when the Albatross spewed her tardy commuters into Wall Street, 45 minutes late. All declared themselves staunchly in favor of hydrofoil commuting, though it takes nearly as long and costs approximately three times more ($100 a month) than commuting from Port Washington via the overland route on the Long Island Rail Road. Three days afterward, however, the heroic Albatross was late again, when her engine conked out for ten minutes...