Word: seaports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in the Siberian seaport of Vladivostok, but persistent in thinking of himself as a Mongolian gypsy born mysteriously on an island off Japan, he further complicates matters by playing Siamese kings, saturnine Russians, Maya chieftains and other outlandish types. To untangle things-some-the real Yul Brynner, 45, stood up and went to the U.S. embassy in Berne, Switzerland, where he formally renounced the U.S. citizenship he has held since he was naturalized in 1947. He retains Swiss citizenship now, with his wife Doris and daughter Victoria, who do not qualify to become U.S. citizens since they live abroad...
Exuberant citizens of Moscow-which is 400 miles inland but tied into the waterway by a newly widened spur -are already touting their city as a major seaport. They have dubbed it "the Port of the Five Seas," because it is now tied up with the Baltic, the Black, White, Azov and Caspian...
...quake), and for two hours it set seismographs squiggling as far away as central Italy, 7,500 miles to the east. Reports from Santiago told of 200 houses heavily damaged; amazingly, only four people were dead and ten injured. In Valparaiso, Chile's major seaport, close to 30% of the buildings were damaged with 15 persons killed. Throughout the central part of the country, water mains burst, buildings collapsed, and whole towns seemed to dance...
...Viet Nam in half (see map). Operating in battalion-strength units, the Communists hacked away at two important highways: Route 1, the embattled north-south road that the French called La Rue sans Joie (Street Without Joy), and Route 19, which links Pleiku in the central plateau with the seaport staging base of Quinhon. Controlling all of Route 19 from Pleiku to within 20 miles of Quinhon, the Viet Cong pinned down a company of South Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Special Forces advisers at Mangyang Pass. The Rangers were rescued by helicopter only after two U.S. jet strikes had scraped...
...live in cone-shaped huts more suggestive of the Sudan than of Italy, and peasant women walk three steps behind their husbands. But the south now boasts Italy's biggest steel mill, its biggest oil refinery and its biggest petrochemical plant. Naples, now Italy's second biggest seaport (after Genoa), has become so thoroughly industrialized that there is little more room to expand, and Caserta to the north has grown into a mighty concentration of more than 100 plants. The city of Latina, just below Rome, has risen out of a drained marsh to become a bustling center...