Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hassan had some alternatives, none of them very pleasant: he could make his own coalition with one of the opposition parties, a solution difficult to achieve without losing royal face. Or he could declare a "recount" of votes and rig the results, a course repugnant to the idealistic monarch. Using the constitution he drafted last year, Hassan could even dissolve the House and forget about the democracy he had promised the nation. Wrestling with his dilemma, the King got little sympathy from the opposition. Jeered National Union Leader Abderrakim Benabid...
...Eliot boat raced with an "Italian rig," having the number four and five men both rowing starboard. This rig is designed to reduce the torque in the middle of a shell resulting from the time delay in the starboard rowers; the world champion German Ratzeburg crew has also adopted...
...called Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen, and in 1960 added a militia that now numbers 13,000. The two operate in chilling tandem, handling everything from shakedowns of merchants to the assassination of suspected anti-Duvalierists. Their biggest day came in 1961 when they helped Duvalier rig a phony election that extended his rule to 1967. Legally, his first six-year term should end this May 15, and as the date approaches, restlessness stirs the country...
From the mucky waters of Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, the Houston Ship Channel sluggishly winds 50 miles into southern Texas. From both banks, scrubby rangeland and salt marshes stretch to the horizon, relieved occasionally by a decrepit farmhouse or a forlorn oil rig. Then suddenly, around one of the canal's innumerable bends, a $2 billion complex of oil refineries and chemical plants erupts on the landscape. Soon the inland-bound passenger spies in the distance what appears to be a skyscraper, then several skyscrapers, then a full metropolitan skyline. It might be a mirage shimmering...
...tradition that a woman at sea is bad luck has long since sunk without a trace. Every boat seemed designed to appeal to the feminine eye for color and convenience, even in the sailboats, the last stronghold of the hornyhanded old salt. Most fetching was a 35-ft. sloop-rigged motor sailer made by that master of motorboats, Chris-Craft. With 563 sq. ft. of sail on a beamy (11 ft.) Fiberglas hull, Chris-Craft's "sail yacht" is powered by a hefty 60-h.p. engine that gives it a cruising speed of six or seven knots. In cabins...