Word: guam
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American Samoa is a U.S. territory 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii. Like other offshore outposts, including Guam and the Virgin Islands, it is run by the Interior Department and has a U.S.-appointed Governor- H. Rex Lee, an Iowa-born farm economist. In light of its status, how far does the U.S. Constitution cover American Samoa...
...weighs 190 Ibs., has a face like a clenched fist and a voice that starts out tenderly-like an avalanche. He carries shrapnel scars, two Bronze Stars, and a card in the steam fitters' union, has done his share of knocking around-places like Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Guam, Okinawa. And when he played rightfield for the Yankees from 1949 to 1959, his specialty was knocking down double-play-minded second basemen...
...plane by Curtis LeMay, had to console himself by talking the copilot into keeping a log. Laurence's 3,000-word story had clearance, but a military censor on Tinian made him boil it down to 500 words-and for some reason the dispatch was then shortstopped on Guam. It never got out at all. The first newspaper accounts of the Hiroshima bomb consisted of stories prewritten by Laurence and others weeks before...
MARJORIE SMITH Agana, Guam...
...attend flying school, and won his second lieutenant's bars in 1929. A bomber man from the first, he was assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing at Virginia's Langley Field. During World War II he flew B-24s over North Africa and Italy, commanded a Guam-based B-29 wing that made the first large-scale fire-bomb raid over Tokyo. Later, he helped plot the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the 1946 A-bomb tests at Bikini...