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...nearby creeks with poisons, including arsenic, from previous gold mines. The critics want UNESCO to add Yellowstone to its list of endangered sites and thereby increase pressure on Crown Butte Mines, Inc., to drop plans for the new mine. "A worse site could not have been imagined," says Sue Glidden, co-owner of the general store in nearby Cooke City. "It threatens all our community values. It is not our destiny to return to our mining roots...
Italians claim they invented the typewriter in 1855. Austrians say their own Peter Mitterhofer developed the original machine in 1864. Americans are stuck with a trio, Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule, who constructed a practical typewriter in 1867. The gap is wide between their early clunker, with wooden type bars that fell back into place because of gravity, and IBM's fanciest $1,035 Selectric III with variable pitch, self-erasure and changeable type balls. But alas, even IBM's latest is burdened by Sholes' greatest yet most troublesome legacy: an eccentric keyboard...
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...