Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Doug Sanders, Charles Sifford and David Thomas compete at the Singapore Island Country Club in Singapore...
...tour in Viet Nam waters. It was 0819 hours. On the stern, 30 Navy aircraft were ready to be catapulted aloft. Loaded with 500-lb. bombs, rockets and air-to-air missiles, the planes of Carrier Air Wing Nine were going to wage a simulated attack on the barren island of Kahoolawe, some 85 miles southeast of Honolulu...
Passengers on the Long Island Railroad are accustomed to seeing themselves as victims of a callous and capricious railroad management. The line's 150,000 New York commuters, said Nassau County Leader Eugene Nickerson last week, "travel in rolling slums -if they roll at all." When four commuters who share this opinion got together recently and staged a minor rebellion, they learned just how tough the authorities can be. The rebels were an employment counselor, Allen Simmons, 21, and three secretaries, Diane Glucksman, 21, Carole Geiger, 22, and Frances Piecora...
Humiliating Postures. It was on a day like any other on the Long Island: the trains were unheated, overcrowded and late. While riding home at night, the four decided that their patience had run out. When the conductor came around, they informed him that they would show him their tickets only when they started to receive better service from the railroad. In response, Conductor Charles Farnsworth signaled for the train to stop at the next station. All four were arrested on an obscure misdemeanor charge, "theft of service." Then they were taken in a police paddy wagon to Brooklyn night...
Acting for a group of investors-and without Government permission-Ray started building a small island on the reefs off Elliot Key. He brought out equipment to dig fill out of the sea and, as a homestead, set up a prefabricated hut on his man-made island. When the U.S. contested his legal claim, Ray then argued that the island was outside Government jurisdiction. The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Ray claimed that international law allows anyone who discovers an oceanic island and colonizes it to proclaim it a sovereign country...