Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoboken, a Jersey waterfront town that does not shrink from comparison with Port Said, the old folks on the front steps tell the tale of a pretty little boy with rosy cheeks and light brown ringlets who went skipping along the sidewalk in one of the nation's hairiest neighborhoods -all dressed up in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. "Hey!" said one little denizen of the neighborhood. "Lookit momma's dolling!" It was the work of a moment for the roughneck and his pal to redecorate the object of their interest with a barrage of rotten fruit. Then...
...that it may be able to produce nuclear power at as little as 4 mills per kw-h by 1970, depending partly on how much byproduct plutonium and U-233 is bred from reactors. The first big U.S. nuclear power plant, a uranium-fueled, pressurized water reactor at Shippings-port, Pa., will start delivering 60,000 kw. to Pittsburgh...
...permanently sewage-laden Mother Nile." He saw the defeat of the Afrika Korps and recorded in harrowing detail "this confusing mixture of rascality and gallantry, of bloody murder and of common sense, of intolerable grimness and of surprising joviality" that was the desert war. When the R.A.F. bombed a port in Tunisia, Johnston went along. And so "the BBC made its first triumphal recording of a member of a bomber crew in actual flight over a target . . . Clear as a bell it came over the intercom: 'Here come the obscenity obscenities,' " meaning German fighters...
...clock one morning last week a neatly dressed Negro in a natty brown suit parked his old Ford in an alley in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and after glancing furtively around, hurried into a dingy building that had once been a garage Under his arm was a small blackboard wrapped in newspapers; in his pockets were bits of chalk; and awaiting him inside the building were 38 Negro children, sitting silent on wooden benches. Before he turned to them, however, the man first carefully locked the door. He had good reason: his is an illegal school...
Just across Kanellopoulos Street from a small British-owned bleach factory in Piraeus (the port of Athens) stands a building that was once a profitable bordello. Today, fitted with an imposing guard tower at each corner, it is the Greek government's Vourlon Prison, involuntary home of many a condemned member of Greece's outlawed Communist Party, serving time for their parts in Greece's bloody civil war, or for stirring up trouble since then...