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Traffic in Vancouver's modestly equipped harbor has doubled, causing major delays for unhappy Canadian shippers. In the sleepy resort town of Ensenada, the scene is even more hectic. Dozens of ships wait in line as long as three weeks for one of three berths, where Mexican laborers sometimes work 36-hour shifts to unload them. Since the strike began, Ensenada crews have loaded or unloaded 64 ships, more than they normally see in a year. Much of the cargo is simply moved to vacant lots until it can be hauled to the U.S. Some 3,700 Volkswagens...
...initial shock came after a jewelry store was robbed in the seaside resort of Blackpool. As the traditionally unarmed constabulary chased five men who had looted the store of about $125,000 in jewels, the escaping thieves opened fire. Blackpool's respected chief of police, Superintendent Gerald Irving Richardson, was killed, and two of his constables were wounded. To an aroused public, 100,000 of whom turned out for the slain superintendent's funeral, the Blackpool shooting underscored the fact that the underworld in Britain is no longer reluctant to resort to armed violence. Not even the Great...
...holiday retreat at Brégançon near Toulon. As for BB, St.Tropez citizens and officials have tacitly agreed not to disturb the two long high walls that jut perpendicularly out into the Mediterranean from her private haven. After all, it was Brigitte who made the resort a tremendous tourist attraction in the first place...
...company presidency on to his son John. The new $500,000 pavilion, used but one week a year, features more than a thousand cushioned chairs, an art exhibit, and closed-circuit television inside and out. Still, the sales at Saratoga -American racing's most traditional and posh resort-are essentially unchanged since that evening in 1918 when Samuel Riddle bid up to $5,000 for a handsome chestnut colt. They named him Man O' War, and Fasig-Tipton -the company that conducts the auction for 5% of the gross-has been packing them in ever since. The rising...
...moral condemnation continues, but prostitution nonetheless degrades and abuses women, particularly poor women. Certainly there was once a time when, as Shaw wrote in Mrs. Warren's Profession, society was "underpaying, undervaluing, and overworking women so shamefully that the poorest of them are forced to resort to prostitution to keep body and soul together." Today, when hunger is a reasonably rare motivation and "white slavery" is nearly forgotten, many arrested prostitutes need money because they are addicted to drugs (though the statistics used may simply show that police tend to corral street-corner addicts rather than call girls...