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...John Blashill's article "The Island of Not Having" [May 17] makes Gan sound like an ideal spot for the troops here on Shemya to visit for rest and recuperation. Our island is a 2-by-4-mile dot of tundra at the far western end of the Aleutian chain. We are about 1,200 Air Force, Army and civilian men with no females. We do get a chance to ogle the Reeve-Aleutian Airline stewardesses twice weekly. The Gan Island weather, fishing, golf, tennis and volleyball sound like a little bit of heaven compared with Shemya...
...have to agree with you that the media can make or break or cripple or assassinate anybody it chooses to, not only black but white as well, polka-dot. I don't foresees in the immediate future any high-level black editors on powerful American newspapers or magazines. By that I mean decision-making levels. I don't see black people getting into that in my lifetime. The system's so tied up that we almost have to forget it for now. Guys your age and, my little boy, Dennis' age may ultimately arrive at those levels, but you have...
Britain will also keep three communications and refueling bases in the Indian Ocean, partly to keep watch over what Heath sees as a growing Russian threat in the Indian Ocean. They are among the loneliest, most remote spots on earth, and the loneliest of all is Gan, a dot of coral only 1¾ miles long in the Maldives, 700 miles southwest of Ceylon, 42 miles below the equator, and 2,200 miles east of Africa. For a view of that farthest-flung outpost of a vanishing empire, TIME Correspondent John Blashill recently visited Gan. His report...
...much business in China," says former Canadian Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton. His agents once spent six excruciating weeks working out a wheat deal with the Communists. "They're difficult to deal with," according to one London banker. "They want to re-examine every / and / before they dot and cross them." But, adds a Canadian banker, "they're strictly honorable in adhering to their agreements. They pay their debts promptly...
...acme of exhibitionism and possibly unconscious homosexual striving is seen in men who have tattoos on their penises. The classic example of this is the sailor who had what appeared to be a small dot of color tattooed on his glans penis, On erection, the dot turned into a full-blown picture of Old Glory unfurled...