Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greenland's 800,000 square miles make it the world's largest island and stationary aircraft carrier. It would be as valuable as Alaska during the next few years, before bombers with a 10,000-mile range are in general use. It would be invaluable, in either conventional or push-button war, as an advance radar outpost. It would be a forward position for future rocket-launching sites. In peace or war it is the weather factory for northwest Europe, whose storms must be recorded as near the source as possible...
Spitzbergen and Bear Islands, north of Norway, were deeded to that country by treaty in 1919, with the stipulation that the islands were to be demilitarized permanently. In the convention that signed the treaty were representatives of Japan, as well as 29 other nations. The Soviets currently feel that the signatures of the Japanese representatives invalidate the entire proceedings, thus paving the way for new disposition of claims for the island. Among these claims is the oft-repeated desire of the Russian government to share in the "defense" of the Spitzbergen Islands...
Other coaches grumble about his firehouse brand of basketball. "I know they hate it," says cocky Coach Frank Keaney of Rhode Island State. Long ago he quit concentrating on defense and worked up an exaggerated fast-break style. Says he: "We will give anybody 100 points if we can get 101." Every man on his squad knows that he has to throw rather than dribble, outrun rather than outskill the opposition-and keep running. The fans love...
...feet, claiming that the opposition had fouled, bellowing to one of his own boys that he'd be "sold to Louisville" (banished to the bench). He kept repeating one word-"faster"-to a team that was already whizzing past Maine. Maine tumbled, 99-66, and Rhode Island's remarkable scoring record rose to a dizzy 96.4 per game. Before the week was out, Connecticut became victim No. 8, by a score...
...tell him he has a super-duper basketball squad. Says he solemnly: "They're going to get their ears knocked off." He doesn't think any of them compare with two of his former basketball All-Americans-Ernie Calverley and Stanley "Stutz" Modzelewski. But if Rhode Island gets past dangerous St. Joseph's in Philadelphia this week, they may be on the way to an undefeated season...