Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam war should be square, oblong, rectangular, oval or any number of imaginative mutations. Last week, after studying nearly two dozen designs, the negotiators at last agreed on the shape of the table: it will be round. A few days later, they sat down as a group for the first time to get on with the deadly serious business of seeking a peace settlement...
Acting for a group of investors-and without Government permission-Ray started building a small island on the reefs off Elliot Key. He brought out equipment to dig fill out of the sea and, as a homestead, set up a prefabricated hut on his man-made island. When the U.S. contested his legal claim, Ray then argued that the island was outside Government jurisdiction. The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Ray claimed that international law allows anyone who discovers an oceanic island and colonizes it to proclaim it a sovereign country...
After a full year of deliberation, a federal judge in Miami has just decreed that neither group of investors has any right to the property. Ruling in favor of the Government, Judge Charles Fulton declared that the disputed territory is not a real island but sea bed. Under an international convention, the U.S. has all rights to exploit the resources of the Continental Shelf. Moreover, federal law empowers the Army to veto potential obstacles to coastal navigation-such as Ray's artificial island. Judge Fulton also speculated that if the U.S. does not control offshore reefs, an alien missile...
...case illustrates the fact that a great many legal issues must be resolved before underwater territory can be developed. Last week a special Government commission, headed by former M.I.T. President Julius Stratton, deplored the present haphazard approach to exploiting the oceans. One proposal of Stratton's group attempts to revive the spirit of homesteading. To encourage aquaculture, recreation projects and other uses of the sea, the commission recommended the leasing of submerged lands on easy terms to small investors. It proposes to call the arrangement "seasteading...
...nose at Pampers. He points out that the plastic outer covers have to be removed before the paper filler is flushed down a toilet, and that it sometimes clogs up plumbing. P. & G. executives contend that clogging seldom if ever occurs. Some time ago, Shiffert's group hired a Manhattan market-research firm, Drake Sheehan/Stewart Dougall, which concluded that the No. 1 need of the diaper service is to develop an odor-free container. That task has been entrusted to the Arthur D. Little Inc., a management-consultant firm, and Shiffert claims that such a container is "about...