Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the "Baboon" was safe in port in Norfolk, with Canipe, his 18-year-old son, Mack, and his father, a retired grocer, aboard. Until the damage is appraised, Canipe will not know how much he will realize from his prize. But he has a reasonable expectation of making at least $100,000 above the money (upwards of $40,000) that it cost him to salvage the Babun...
Mendès had scarcely returned to his villa Joli-Port when Molotov arrived. Was it true that the U.S. would refuse to sign the agreement? the Russian demanded. If so. the cease-fire might not be acceptable to Russia. Mendès scurried over to the Hotel du Rhône, where U.S. Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith had taken dismally to his bed with lumbago...
...week. It was well out to sea, in the approved international corridor. Suddenly, two prop-driven fighters, the red markings bright on their cream-colored paint, flew up alongside, dropped back, and stitched through the airliner from behind with cannon and machine-gun fire. The Skymaster's outboard port engine caught fire; the next burst knocked out the outboard starboard engine, and set the wing tanks ablaze. In the cabin, passengers cowered in their seats, but for some it was no protection against the fire from the attackers...
When the doors of Christie's opened in London one day last week, a full-house crowd was waiting to squeeze into the auction room. Up for sale was a collection of 166 pictures, including Joseph Mallord William Turner's seascape of Helvoetsluys, the Dutch port. For the fourth time in a century, Londoners would get a chance to buy the painting that had become a legendary symbol of the rivalry between England's two greatest painters: Turner and John Constable...
...Paris, Mendesès-France told reporters: "I have reason to smile." The only arguments left, said the British, were 1) whether the French would be allowed to keep a right of access to the port of Haiphong, and 2) how soon elections should be held in Viet Nam. The Communists wanted them soon, confident that electoral victory would win them the parts of Viet Nam that they had not got around to taking by force of arms. The French wanted elections late, hoping that in, say, 18 months, a stronger independent government might win the support of the Vietnamese...