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...Honduran title dates back to the original Spanish conquest of Central America in the 16th century. Every few years (most recently in 1957), Honduras renews its claim with a polite, formal note to Washington. The State Department as politely rejects it, pointing out that the islands were first settled by a Brooklyn guano firm in 1857. In 1904 a Boston syndicate, grandly titled the Swan Islands Commercial and General Trading Co., bought the place to harvest coconuts and tropical woods, but lost money steadily through the years. Amateur explorers pitted the islands in unsuccessful hunts for buried pirate gold...
...tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down payment on 40,000 acres of Union Pacific land in Nebraska near the Platte River. A community there, he dreamed, would be his monument, and good farming...
...breathe" water, set him free as a fish for years beneath the sea. A second operation could easily return him to life in the air. "Everything that has been done on the surface will sooner or later be done under water," says Cousteau. "It will be the conquest of a whole new world...
...Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). A documentary on a difficult operation that has brought instant hearing to ears long deaf...
...Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Filmed in a Harvard psychology laboratory, the program tries to explain "What Makes Us Human?", shows how science measures learning and conditioning...