Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bothered. If any of this bothered either Khrushchev or Fidel Castro, they rather handsomely managed to conceal their dismay. Castro announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to help build "a fishing port" in Cuba to "facilitate the operations of the Soviet fishing fleet in the area of the Atlantic." With a bland air, Castro explained that he was "surprised to learn the extraordinary number of fishing boats that the Soviet Union has on all the seas." The Soviet newspaper Izvestia echoed the line of innocence: "The implementing of this agreement will not only allow Soviet fishermen to increase their...
Snoop Ships & Subs. The new "fishing port" will be, in fact, a Soviet naval base. It will supply and repair the Soviet snoop ships, eliminate the need for their long trips home. The equipment required to maintain this fleet can be used just as well to service submarines and torpedo boats. Said New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating: "If we fall for this new bait, we will be the biggest suckers of them...
Britain's Aden Colony consists of 75 sq. mi. of bleak volcanic rock at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Though hot as hell's hinges, Aden is a prosperous city of some 300,000; its port, one of the world's busiest, has virtually the only good harbor on the 3,400-mile sea haul from Suez to India. Aden is also headquarters for the 40,000 troops of Britain's Middle East Command who stand guard over the Persian Gulf. In the setting sun of empire, Britain has been shoved out of bases...
...Goes to Jail." Gretel's joyous crew was singing Waltzing Matilda as they were towed back to port past the horn-tooting spectator fleet, and the song rang through Newport all night. Even the cops cheered. "Nobody with an Australian accent goes to jail tonight," announced a local policeman. Said a crew member, amid the debris of Gretel's headquarters pub: "This reminds me of an outback pub at shearing time." Back home, radio stations played a special Gretel Song. The Sydney Sun announced the victory: WILY STURROCK OUTFOXES AMERICANS. And for this one race, at least...
...Affair begins, the High Tables of the university are still rocking with an intellectual scandal that will not down with the port. Donald Howard (Keith Baxter) has been judged guilty of scientific fraud, having apparently faked a research photograph in his fellowship thesis, and a court of dons deprives him of his fellowship. Since Howard is a boor whose better-Red-than-well-bred political stance and personality irked most of his colleagues, his departure is viewed as good riddance. But his spitfiery wife Laura (Brenda Vaccaro) is certain of his innocence, certain that he has been victimized...