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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Storming the village, the terrorists butchered everyone in sight; the corpses of 250 Arabs, mostly women and small children, were later found tossed into wells. Shamefacedly, the Jewish Agency (the shadow government) announced its "horror and disgust at the barbarous manner in which this action was carried out" and cabled the statement to Jordan's King Abdullah, leader of the Arab coalition. (Three months later, fed up with the terrorists' irresponsibility, the Haganah itself fought a pitched battle with the Irgun troops, forced them to disband as a private army...
...militancy the local settlers have long demanded, the British Colonial Office 1) sealed off Central Kenya, including the three Kikuyu tribal reserves, from the rest of the colony; 2) created "special areas" in three sections of the Great Rift Valley, where anyone moving about may be shot at sight; 3) sent in General Sir George Erskine, 53, a famed terrorist-buster who last left his angry mark upon Egyptian Ismailia (TIME, Feb. 4,1952), to clean up the mess...
Television, it seemed, was the final blow. The weekly audience was down from 80 million to 46 million, with the bottom not in sight, and theaters were closing three a day. (Since 1946, some 5,000 of them have become ghost houses, or been converted to supermarkets...
Author Stackpole follows the old Nantucket industry to its peak in the 1830s, when the search for whales had long since taken the ships into the Pacific. There, Stackpole believes, a Nantucket master named Captain Christopher Burdick deserves credit for being the first to sight the Antarctic continent. Others discovered new islands, gave them Nantucket family names, e.g., Gardner, Starbuck and Swain Islands...
Sometimes the God-fearing men of Nantucket were unable to get over the sight of the Pacific and its paradisial isles. The old records contain stories of men who left their ships and settled down with native women. Once, in 1824, a whole shipload of men mutinied, killed the officers of the Globe, and set up a short-lived kingdom on Mili Island...