Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARYLAND'S restaurant overlooks a fisherman's wharf, features terrapin, shad roe, and Southern-style fried chicken...
Still, San Francisco is popular, if only because of its peculiarities. The old cable cars still rattle up 45-degree hills. There is Chinatown, which these days sells Japanese-made trinkets. There is Fisherman's Wharf, for abalone and prawns. There are some of the best restaurants in the U.S. There are the swinging nightspots of North Beach, where the most popular dance is that variation of the twist called "the Swim," which, until last week at least, was taught at The Condor by an instructress in a topless swimming suit atop the piano...
...rifles. In the capital, city officials decided against holding the customary public ceremony as Sir Richard Luyt, the colony's new British-appointed Governor, replaced Sir Ralph Grey, who is moving on to the Bahamas. To prevent riots, the swearing-in ceremony took place on a Georgetown wharf only a few feet from the Canadian ship that brought Sir Richard from Trinidad. Once again, the fuse was lit in British Guiana, and holding the match-as usual-was Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan...
Mountain of Sand. Not content with supplying engines, Verolme in 1950 decided to go into shipbuilding, audaciously won orders for three ships while his new wharf was still a mountain of sand. But he produced on schedule, in a few years had another shipyard, and followed that with the establishment of his yard outside Rotterdam, one of the world's biggest and most modern. Once, when he decided to launch a 26,500-ton ship into a narrow canal, thousands of Dutchmen showed up to watch the disaster. But Verolme had made laboratory tests and even practiced at home...
Monterey, Calif., Wharf Theater: June Havoc in The Threepenny Opera...