Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aggravated his old back ailment while lifting a spadeful of soil at a tree-planting ceremony in Canada, John F. Kennedy has stayed off the golf course. So it came as a surprise when, early this month, newsmen spotted the President swinging vigorously away on the course at Hyannis Port...
...island's naval and military facilities. Britain came through with an offshore island and an officers' club golf course, which Lee promised to turn into a botanical garden. But when the negotiations turned to such basic matters as Singapore's continued status as a free port and its financial contribution to the underdeveloped Borneo territories, the discussions bogged down...
...Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 34: their eighth child, fifth son, and second July 4th baby (the other: eldest daughter Kathleen, 12), whose imminent arrival a week ahead of schedule brought the Marines on the double with a helicopter to fly Ethel, keeping calm, and Bobby, looking nervous, from Hyannis Port to a parking lot in Boston, where a police car took over for the rest of the trip to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for her delivery by caesarean section...
Cunard has ripped out the Edwardian trappings of two of its ships, installed bowling lanes and nightclubs and rechristened the ships Carmania and Franconia. Along its Mediterranean stops, the American Export Lines provides variety in entertainment by picking up Spanish flamenco dancers in one port, carrying them to the next, and then taking aboard another set of locals. The Italian Line hires hostesses-often some one who can claim a titled name-to help passengers get acquainted...
...once they reach land, the note of remember-who-this-is-all-about surfaces coyly again: one of the crew tosses a pair of waterlogged boots to another, wisecracking: "Put a high gloss on these, porter. They're for my friend when he gets back to Hyannis Port...