Word: seaport
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...Viking ships found in such Norwegian burial sites as Gok-stad and Oseberg, and now preserved in Oslo, are too fragile to cross the Atlantic. But as a sort of extension of the Metropolitan exhibition, a two-thirds scale model of one is being displayed at the South Street Seaport Museum in Lower Manhattan...
...weeks ago, when 16,000 employees of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk suddenly walked off the job and seized control of the sprawling complex. They were soon joined by city bus drivers and workers at 17 nearby factories and enterprises, virtually shutting down the country's major Baltic seaport...
...years ago, violent food price riots broke out in the grimy Baltic seaport of Gdansk, spread rapidly to other regions and threatened to sweep the country. The government's brutal response left hundreds of workers dead and forced the resignation of Communist Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka. His successor, Edward Gierek, had good cause to reflect upon those events last week. The workers of Gdansk were up in arms again: 16,000 angry employees of the Lenin Shipyard went on strike and occupied the sprawling complex. They were soon joined by bus drivers and workers at some 17 other factories...
...Seaport frets over Moonies
...haired Pablo was a familiar figure in the Barrio Chino, the red-light district of fin de siècle Barcelona, the city to which the family had moved when he was five. Some of his earliest work was inspired by the putas and dancers of that wicked cosmopolitan seaport. Though he later won admission to Madrid's esteemed Academy of San Fernando, an art school, he did not take his studies seriously, preferring to spend his time in the Prado and other museums -and in the demimonde with other young artists and poets...