Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invasion forces"), a few ineffectual air sorties at Tel Aviv, and a tragicomic attempt by an Egyptian frigate to shell Haifa. The ship was crippled by Israeli aircraft rockets, ran up its white flag. The bemused Egyptian didn't even scuttle his ship, and it was towed into port while Israelis cheered from harbor rooftops...
...Mexican coast guard after Captain E. W. Bartell charged that they threw the boat's food, tools and fishing gear overboard, cut the automatic pilot loose, pulled out a plug in the bait tank, set fire to the engine room, forced him to steer back to port by threatening him with a shotgun and butcher knives, because the cook wanted to visit his pregnant wife...
...Port Republic...
...would be disappointed not to get our current issue on his weekly shopping trip to Dar es Salaam. British commercial travelers, returning from the Far East with a great hunger for the latest news of the Suez crisis, are delighted to find TIME in the bustling Arabian Sea port of Aden. And at Bishoftu, Swedish airmen training Ethiopian air force crews can now read the news of the world in TIME long before hometown newspapers reach them...
Last week, with time running out, I.P.C. struck back. It announced it had abandoned plans to route the spur from Horns through Lebanon, had begun building it to the Syrian port of Baniyas instead. The company also fired 120 Lebanese it had hoped to use on the new spur, brought anguished protests from Lebanese businessmen. Cried Right Wing Deputy Nicolas Salem: "It's easy to destroy but not everybody can build . . . Investors are losing faith in Lebanon...