Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week's report on rhythmical Trinidad (see Music), however, Harman took his ear directly to the source. From predawn, when a rooster, the only unmusical creature he heard on the island, awoke him, he roamed the carnival-crowded streets of Port-of-Spain to hear such exotic instruments as steel drums, bongos and bamboo tamboo. In a hidden grove of palms, he even heard a bootleg concert of the long-banned jungle drums. One night at Port-of-Spain's Little Carib Theater the island's wild and inexorable rhythms got to Harman. Like everybody else...
Seattle, the closest U.S. port to China, has always had a more friendly understanding of its transpacific neighbor than most West Coast communities. As long ago as 1886, when anti-Chinese riots convulsed the West, a small band of Seattle citizens stood off a mob and prevented the forcible deportation of 350 Chinese nationals. Seattle was the only Pacific Coast city where such violence was successfully halted. In 1916 the late Julean Arnold, a lifelong friend of China and onetime commercial attache in the U.S. embassy in Peking, visited Seattle and asked if there was any interest among the city...
Steamy Iquitos, Peru's chief Amazon River port, was sleeping under a velvet equatorial sky when military boots first began to scrape along the streets. Tough little soldiers in suntans deployed briskly. In less than an hour, without firing a shot, they occupied the city's radio stations, telegraph office, and the big, grey prefectura building, Capitol of the jungled, Arizona-size department of Loreto...
After first ascertaining that the Norwegian fishermen were in port, in keeping with the Norwegian law which forbids fishing on Sundays, a fleet of some 60 Soviet boats followed a shoal of herring inside Norway's four-mile limit and let down their purse nets off Aalesund. A police cruiser sped out to chase the trespassers. When the Russian boat captains could not or would not understand, a shoal of small warships of the Norwegian navy steamed out. Two Russian boats tried to get away; a machine gun sputtered, and the boats hove to. Norwegians climbed aboard four small...
...Russians were not cowed. The rest of the Soviet fleet moved in and dipped nets into Norwegian waters. The warships sped out again, fired a few more shots across Russian bows, steamed resolutely back to port with another 10 ships, including the 7,000-ton Tambov, the Soviet fleet's mother ship. While 800 Soviet crewmen-relieved to get ashore after being cooped up for four months aboard ship-loafed and chatted with the people of Aalesund, Norwegian authorities got two of the 15 skippers to admit they had been poaching, then fired off a strong protest to Moscow...