Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sphinx," reported the weekly Le Clou, "De Gaulle amuses himself with the subtle game of enigmas." Rumor whirled among left-wingers of an impending rightist coup. "De Gaulle's intransigent friends," said Le Clou, "dream for their Idol a destiny either like a return from the island of Elba or one resulting from a big scuffle...
...frothing sea 235 miles south of Tokyo Bay, agitated by hot lava and fuming with sulfurous steam, spewed out a new 10-acre volcanic island which most likely will soon sink slowly back into the sea. One Japanese scientist suggested a name: "MacArthur Island." "It is most spectacular, it is creating great excitement, but in another year or two it will be gone...
Iron would be brought by barge from deposits on Texada Island, about 50 miles upcoast from Vancouver. The necessary fluxes-limestone and silica-were near by. Electric heat would melt the ore; fuel would be required only as a reducing and carbonizing agent. A primary advantage: power costs were estimated at less than one mill per kwh, probably the cheapest in Canada. Plans were to handle 130 tons of ore from Texada daily, to turn out 65 tons of "high quality iron cheaply and economically," with the initial output earmarked for B.C.'s burgeoning postwar industry (TIME...
...French, 49 (called Happy because he never looks it), had been shooting oversized hollyhocks, chasing fires and persuading divorcees to pull up their skirts for the camera for 23 years. He never did get much schooling, and was famed for malaprops: he always said "polo bears" and "Remember Pearl Island" and "neon stockings...
Varsity Track: April 19, Tufts, University of Connecticut; April 27, M.I.T.; Holy Cross, Rhode Island State; May 4, Yale; May 11, Dartmouth, Yale, Pennsylvania at Hanover; May 18, Heptagonal Meet at Princeton; May 24-25, I.C.A.A.A.A. at Annapolis...