Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just a year ago that the first wave of U.S. Marines, M-14 rifles clutched at high port, waded ashore at Danang. The landing came at a dismally low point in South Viet Nam's long struggle for independence, with the Viet Cong on the offensive and threatening to cut the country in half. The marines were the U.S. reply, the commitment of the first organized American combat units to the ground war in Southeast Asia...
...road shipments may soon be supplemented with more fuel from another source. At the port of Beira in Portuguese-ruled Mozambique, workmen are completing new oil storage tanks alongside a pipeline that runs 186 miles west to Rhodesia's largest refinery. And tramp tankers laden with gasoline are rumored to be Beira-bound...
...Well by Doing Good. Of 24 players on this year's Tech squad, all but six are Canadians, and most have already been drafted by some N.H.L. club. Captain Ricky Yeo comes from Port Arthur, Ontario. All-America Goalie Tony Esposito, brother of the Chicago Black Hawks' Phil Esposito, is on the Montreal Canadiens' "negotiation list," and Wingman Jerry Bumbacco was drafted at 16 by the Black Hawks. The deal for those who do well is free room, board and tuition, plus a $25-a-month bonus if they keep their grades above...
...Port Jefferson...
After an hour, most of the boats had given up and turned back to port. The rest wished they had. Owner-Driver John Raulerson and a crewman had to be pulled off his wallowing, 33-ft. Tin Fish by the Coast Guard (at week's end the empty boat was still floating somewhere in the Gulf Stream). World Champion Dick Bertram didn't even have time to radio for help. Brave Moppie was blasting along at 50 m.p.h. in second place, behind Thunderbird, when disaster struck. "A red warning light suddenly went on, meaning water in the bilge...