Word: guernsey
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Died. Sir Ambrose Sherwill, 78, longtime bailiff (civil head) of the Channel island of Guernsey, which, with the isles of Jersey, Sark and Alderney, was the only bit of Britain occupied by the Nazis during World War II; in Guernsey. Guernsey was "taken" in 1940 by the crews of four transport planes. But Sherwill and the Guernsey folk made life miserable for the Germans, helping P.O.W.s to escape, and reporting every Nazi move to London...
Chicken farmers on the Orkney and Shetland islands off Scotland's northern coast were stuck with 2,000,000 eggs and no way to get them to market. On the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, potato farmers worried about how they would ship this year's crop to Britain...
...party, led by Museum Director John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, found the remains of two Indian huts at Hell Gap near Guernsey, Wyoming. The huts were built 10,000 years ago, 6000 years before the oldest previously dated houses. Until the recent discovery archaeologists believed that the early Indians were strictly nomadic...
Others are not so certain that it's all that easy to limn the essential Lyndon. At the Christian Science Monitor, Cartoonist Guernsey Le Pelley practiced for a week while committing the President to print, and even now draws guardedly: "You change Johnson too much and he looks like Eleanor Roosevelt." Don Wright of the Miami News finds Johnson a slippery subject. "If you aren't sure you have him, you put him in a ten-gallon hat." In the same way and for the same reason, many cartoonists suit up the President in cowboy uniform, right down...
...addition to further digging at Chicken Springs, the National Geographic grant provides for work at the Hell Gap site near Guernsey, Wyoming...