Word: guam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made up mostly of converted trawlers and hydrographic craft, all bristling with antennas and sensitive snooping gear. Just as the Pueblo and her kin prowl the international waters off China, North Korea and the Soviet Union, Russian trawlers are stationed off California, South Carolina, Florida's Cape Kennedy, Guam and Alaska. A Soviet spy ship dogs every move of U.S. aircraft carriers on "Yankee Station," the 45,000-sq.-mi. area of the Tonkin Gulf from which American air strikes over North Viet Nam originate, flashing alerts to Hanoi. Other Russian ELINT ships shadow the U.S. Sixth Fleet...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Highlights from Bob's Christmas visit to the G.I.s in Thailand, Viet Nam and Guam...
...putting things together," says Kenneth T. Jones, a former farm boy from Willow Springs, N.C., who has been putting things together ever since he hit the beaches of Japanese-held Guam as a Seabee in 1944. Now 50 and a solid 240-pounder, he is the millionaire owner of a diversified commercial kingdom ranging from supermarkets to construction and cattle ranching and, most recently, the first luxury hotel in the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. "Next to the Government, Ken Jones is the biggest thing on Guam," says a local dignitary...
...store Pay Less supermarket group will grow to five by the end of next year. His American Motors Agency is the only, one in the world that outsells both G.M. and Ford in its sales area. A restaurant that he leased for 50 years is considered the best in Guam; his Cliff Hotel in Agana, the capital, is packing them in in such numbers that he has started adding one room a day to the original...
...saved up $3,000 for a start, but lost almost half of it in a poker game on the way back to the U.S. With his remaining funds, he bought cheap watches, jewelry and trinkets, and sent them to a Guamanian friend to sell. To get back to Guam as a civilian, he had to sign up for a year as a U.S. civil service employee...