Word: seaports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seaport of Jaffna, an angry mob of 3,000 Tamils, a linguistic and religious minority, battled police in protest against the substitution of Singhalese for English as Ceylon's official language. There were other problems. Mrs. Bandaranaike had been confronted with a sitdown strike when she forced the nationalization of 700 Roman Catholic schools. Opposition parties in Parliament offered a motion of no confidence, hoping to bring her down, charging the government with trying to protect M.P.s who had been found guilty of bribery and corruption. The cost of living rises steadily...
Nothing quite like it had ever happened in the annals of the sea. The 20,906-ton Portuguese liner Santa Maria steamed in circles off the Brazilian seaport of Recife. Following in its wake were three U.S. destroyers and a nuclear submarine. A flotilla of fishing boats and launches jammed with reporters and photographers rose and fell on the choppy waves. From a plane overhead, a dashing French newsman parachuted to land on the Santa Maria's deck. He missed and was hauled from the briny deep by the crew of the U.S.S. Damato...
Last week, carrying 580 passengers, the trim, 20,906-ton Santa Maria put in at La Guaira, the seaport of Caracas. The conspirators boarded the ship, arousing no particular suspicion, since young, male, single employees of Royal Dutch Shell in Venezuela often use the Portuguese line to travel...
After belittling items, picture and caption re J.F.K.'s senatorial successor, Ben Smith, from the heterogeneous seaport of 25,000 hardy Americans, you conclude that "his sole experience in political office was as a city councilman and mayor of Gloucester." It's to laugh...
...different path than Poussin took. He was less interested in ideas or subject matter than in the wonders that nature poured out all around him. He was the first Frenchman to paint similar scenes at different times of day, the first to record the fickle moods of light. His Seaport is as well ordered as a classical painting should be, but there is a quiet sadness about the yellow daylight and a heavy loneliness about the dancing...