Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lake the gentleman stepped into a little boat and was rowed over to the island in its center. Ducks quacked and splattered indignantly as he stepped ashore, entered a small concrete hut, carefully closed the steel door behind him. A few minutes later he emerged hatless, took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from his brow. Dr. Hugh Watts, Chief Inspector of Explosives for the Home Office, had just disarmed his 22nd postal bomb...
Left by Washington's Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson: to seven newsmen, her newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald (see PRESS) ; to her daughter, Countess Felicia Gizycka, virtually all her personal belongings, an estate on Long Island, an estate in North Dakota, a $25,-000 annual income; to Mrs. Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, flamboyant Times-Herald columnist (Eve's Rib), Washington business properties, her black pearl earrings, a sable scarf; to the Red Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate...
...Shoot to Sink." No such hallucinations afflicted the principals in a near naval battle off Staten Island last week. The Russian ship Pobeda came into New York harbor with 37 employees for Russia's U.N. delegation. A U.S. health service officer came aboard for routine rat inspection. The Pobeda's captain took umbrage at what he considered an affront to national honor when the inspector claimed to have found evidence of rats. He refused to have his ship fumigated, insisting that his was a clean ship, with no rats. The health men showed him rat footprints on greasy...
Construction. The AEC tells little about its vast building program, expected to cost $1,250,000,000. The Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with its nuclear reactor, is "well under way." Fifteen thousand workers are busy at Hanford, Wash., presumably expanding the vast plutonium works. The super-secret weapons plant and laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. are being renovated and extended...
Carried Away. At Brooklyn's Coney Island, Fisherman William Lapicki heaved a manful cast off Steeplechase Pier, followed his rod & reel into the Atlantic...