Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's elder daughter Tricia Nixon, 24, to a herd of eligible bachelors, among them White House Aide Jeff Donfeld and Barry Goldwater Jr. Nothing serious, said Mother last week in an obvious effort to scratch the whole field: "Tricia has a boy friend in every port." Nonetheless, White House insiders insist that there's a front runner, Harvard Law Student Edward Cox, 23, whom Tricia first met six years ago at a Chapin School dance in New York. In fact, these Washington touts are hinting that Tricia and her steady Eddie will altar all rumors and marry...
Much of the nation's economic strength comes from raising productivity in the classic way, by replacing men with machines. The New York Port Authority, for example, uses a mechanical man, dubbed Angelo, to direct traffic around construction on the George Washington Bridge. A single guard at a huge console in the lobby of Manhattan's Pan American Building is able to keep track of elevators and, through a closed-circuit TV, watch all entrances and exits to the building...
...Arab countries to work on more than $400 million worth of construction. His men are constructing a pair of bridges at Cairo, digging irrigation canals in Iraq, and building a stadium and sewage system in Libya. A 1,000,000-acre land-reclamation project in the salt marshes near Port Said has been held up by Israeli shelling...
...definition of Radical represented by Saul Alinsky recalls the radicalism of the original Port Huron Statement of SDS in 1962. "America rests in national stalemate... its democratic system apathetic and manipulated, rather than, 'of, by, and for the people.'" Tom Hayden discouraged anyone from insisting that this nation, too large to be a true democracy, must rely on representative democracy when he pointed out. "The 'order of the country is based on people being taught to relinquish the right to order their own lives...
...mile string of underground forts and minefields known as the Bar-Lev Line, after Israel's chief of staff, peace seems remote. Running opposite Port Said in the north to a point opposite the city of Suez in the south, the line was finished only days before Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser renounced the cease-fire and launched his "war of attrition" in March 1969. Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev devised the Suez defense system as both a shield and a springboard. "Its day-to-day mission is to prevent a serious breaching of the canal...