Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Monterey peninsula last week, two separate TV stations, about 14 miles apart in Monterey and Salinas, began beaming test patterns on the same channel (No. 8). It promised to be a friendly, take-turns arrangement. Monterey's KMBY-TV (one quarter owned by Bing Crosby) and Salinas' KSBW-TV had both applied to the FCC for the area's one open channel. Then they decided to pool forces rather than delay local television, perhaps for another year or so, while struggling through lengthy hearings. The FCC granted them its first share-time permit last...
Line Blocked. Said the President: "The last great population remaining in Asia that has not become dominated by the Kremlin, of course, is the subcontinent of India [and] Pakistan . . . Now let us assume that we lose Indo-China. If IndoChina goes, several things happen right away. The [Malay] Peninsula, the last little bit of land hanging on down there [see map^. would be scarcely defensible. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming, and all India would be outflanked. Burma would be in no position for defense...
...Stanford University decided to move its medical school from San Francisco, where real estate and operating costs come high, to the Palo Alto campus down the peninsula. Population has grown fast around Palo Alto, insuring plenty of patients for students to observe in the university hospital...
...decided almost overnight to move against Cornwallis instead. The French war vessels moved to Virginia, too, and after five weeks of fast marching, Washington laid siege to Yorktown with 16,000 French and Continental soldiers. Cornwallis had gone to earth between the York and James Rivers, on a narrow peninsula, which was a normal move in time of trouble for a British commander confident of sea power. But De Grasse's French fleet controlled the Chesapeake. Cut off, hammered night & day by artillery, Cornwallis, a fine soldier, could find...
...foreigners, a man and his wife, traveled out of ancient Corinth one day last month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were Germans, there were sullen mutterings in the village square. A white-haired woman in widow's weeds glared at the man. "He is one of them," she said. "He must...