Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan's major attractions is the lofty complex of skyscrapers, shops and plazas called Rockefeller Center. And a much-frequented port of call within the complex is the Exhibition Center on the lobby floor of the Time & Life Building. In the five years that it has been operating, it has attracted some 3,000,000 visitors to 31 exhibits on the subjects of art, science, photography, history and journalism. This week the crowds are coming in to see a perennial favorite, The Christmas Story, being shown for the fifth consecutive year. This is a re-enactment of the Nativity...
...supported in Viet Nam. To the dismay of field commanders, replacement troops have to be based in Okinawa and other reserve areas far from the front. With an average of 100 ships a day standing off their harbors, South Viet Nam's six biggest ports can at present handle only 17. As many as 40 ships at a time have been diverted to Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines to await docking space in Viet Nam; hundreds more have been held up in U.S. West Coast ports. Vital war materiel has no priority over commercial cargoes. An ammunition ship recently...
...very scenes that may have met the voyagers' astonished eyes: the shores of Djerba, off the Tunisian Coast, where Odysseus-here given his Roman name of Ulysses-tarried among the Lotus Eaters; the brooding Lake Avernus in Italy, where he descended into the Underworld; the bay of Port Vathy, where at last the voyage ended on the sands of home. Lessing has overburdened his superb pictures with too much borrowed text. The Homeric passages that embellish the pictures would have sufficed...
Pentagon analysts, who color the inviolate area red on their war maps, have pinpointed some 30 prime targets within the envelope, an enclave anchored by the Red River town of Yen Bai in the northwest, crucial harbor ports of Haiphong and Cam Pha in the northeast and Thanh Hoa at the southern apex. Around Hanoi are a thermal power plant, an engineering facility, key bridges and the Phuc Yen airfield, where Chinese-supplied MIG-17s are based. In addition to its vast port, Haiphong's potential targets include two power plants, two cement factories, two airfields and three storage...
...Named for a Gulf of Suez port (through which pilgrims pass on the way to Mecca) where a harmless variety of vibrio was first found. Only later was the virulent form of El Tor found in Celebes...