Word: glidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Frederick Glidden, 67, better known by his pen name Luke Short, Illinois-born author of more than 50 hell-bent-for-leather Westerns, some of them later adapted into successful movies (Ramrod, Vengeance Valley, Blood on the Moon), all of them turned out with a plot formula he described as "writing myself into a corner, then writing my way out again"; of cancer; in Aspen, Colo...
...uninhabited: the larger island is used principally as an air-navigation and weather-reporting station. Its population consists of a U.S. Federal Aviation Agency technician, four weathermen and 16 civilians, most of them related in a four-generation link to the island's thrice-married elder. Captain Donald Glidden, 79, a Cayman Islander who settled on Swan in 1927. There are also innumerable booby birds, notable for their droppings, which for centuries have been used as fertilizer...
...Senate is expected to ratify last week's agreement by next spring. After that Honduras will leave things as they are on Swan. The U.S. technicians will remain, as will Glidden and his family. But another potential -though minor-international flash point has been damped down. Raising his glass in a toast last week, President Cruz remarked that Washington had been wise to give up the Swans. If it had not, he hinted with a straight face, Honduras would have had to resort to force...