Word: teak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, the basic hull has been refined into a modern cruiser by a succession of naval architects. "Colin Archers," as the boats are still called, have circled the globe. Suhaili, Eric, Thistle-their names are familiar in far ports. The latest incarnation, the West-sail 32, is a roomy, teak and fiber-glass version built in Costa Mesa, Calif., by a young refugee from electrical engineering named Snider Vick. With his small production line and a fierce de votion to quality, Vick is determined to give fits to competitors whom he calls "the plastic pop-out people"-the mass producers...
Mountains and Jungles. Indonesia's resources are as vast as the country itself, which ranks fifth in the world in population. There are 300 million acres of teak, sandalwood, ebony and other valuable timber, at least one-fortieth of the world's oil reserves under the soil and probably far more offshore, and unmeasured quantities of copper and nickel ore. Experts estimate that Ertsberg Mountain in West Irian, which is the Indonesian half of New Guinea, contains 33 million tons of copper, gold, silver and iron ore all by itself...
Five minutes after visiting hours ended at Belfast's Crumlin Road jail, where more than 100 suspected Irish Republican Army terrorists and other activists were being held without trial, a bomb blasted the prison's 15 ft. teak-and-iron gates off their hinges. Two guards and two prisoners were injured. Three days later, fire alarms sounded at the headquarters of the Electricity Board of Northern Ireland, and the office staff trooped down the back stairway-just in time to catch the full force of a gelignite bomb hidden in a ground-floor locker. One man was killed...
...that the British were needed in the EEC to serve as a counterweight to the Germans. Moreover, Pompidou apparently felt that France could not afford the stigma of once more blocking progress toward a united Western Europe. Consequently, as the ministers took their places around a hollow square of teak tables in the Charlemagne Building, the French were prepared to soften their positions on three major items...
...trained mechanics, electricians and other workers. Now that the Yankees are moving out, the Thais are scouting for new markets for their own products. The Asian Development Bank study found that the war-induced financial windfall had weakened the nation's "incentive to export" its rich resources of teak, rubber, tin, rice and maize. Some Thais also argue that the war lowered their country's morals. G.I.s spent $22 million last year while on leave in Thailand, and Bangkok's prostitute population doubled to 20,000. Their income has done little to stimulate the economy. Typically...