Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Robert Woodward Hathaway, 67, American-born Seigneur of Sark, 2-sq.-mile, semifeudal English Channel island; of thrombosis; in Sark. Hathaway acquired his title when he married the Dame de Sark, Mrs. Sibyl Collings Beaumont, in 1929, worked with her to keep the island and its 542 inhabitants just as they had been when Sark was created as a seigneury by Queen Elizabeth in 1565. They perpetuated the island's ban on automobiles, female dogs and homing pigeons, discouraged movies and newspapers, levied tithes of grain, sheep and wool...
Sharhelders of the alumni-controlled Massachusetts Telecasters, Inc., were reluctant to comment last night on what effect evidence that John Fox '29 may not actually own the Boston Post might have on their case to gain control of the still-unassigned channel five. The Post is one of four organizations battling the alumni group for the television channel...
...shareholders in Massachusetts Bay Telecasters contacted last night said they were not up to date on the hearings, and could not judve what influence the new evidence might have on their case. The Herald-Traveler Co., The Greater Boston Television Corp., and Dumont are also contesting the control of channel five...
...State Department, Far East experts were far less certain than Knowland about the effectiveness of a blockade. They pointed out that Red China still would have a free and important channel of commerce by its overland routes into the Soviet Union. There was serious official doubt, too, about whether allies of the U.S. would join in a blockade...
...Europe consistent with European stability and British defense was Britain's aim. That minimum was a substantial effort in terms of rearmament programs and the stationing of the major part of Britain's armored divisions in Germany. It entailed an official abandonment of the belief that the Channel could be a defense. That has been the starting point of the post-war move away from isolationism...