Visit to Robinson Crusoe Island Moves Toward Tourist Fame
Chilean authorities prepare the Juan Fernandez island for tourism with three hour plane trips from Los Cerrillos. The piece notes the island’s link to Defoe and Selkirk, historic visitors, and the appeal of Mas Atierra lobsters as a draw for travelers.
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Santiago
Chile
Robinson Crusoe
Juan Fernandez Archipeago
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Selkirk
Los Cerillos
Selkirk-Crusoe
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Sir Francis Drake
Capt
James Cook
Mas Atierra
South America
Mexico
Crusoe
German oil export becomes wheat seller in Middle East conflict
German Petroleum Corporation head Guenther Schlicht must sell 150000 tons of Syrian wheat as DEA secures a 5400 square mile Syrian drilling concession. The move signals a German backed economic development strategy with Syria and a wider Middle East oil approach.
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Hamburg
West Germany
Guenther Schlicht
German Petroleum Corporation
DBA
Herr Schlicht
DEA
Middle Eest
Italy
Middle East
Iran
ENI
Schlicht
Syria
Damascus
Bonn
United Arab Republic
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Iraq
Kirkuk
Germany
Deal
Popcorn Comes Of Age as Historic Snack
Popcorn gains champion backers in a Chicago institute that touts it as the oldest cultivated corn. They note Americans eat over 200 million pounds yearly and trace its history from Plymouth to Mayflower meals and early explorers.
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John F
Institute
Plymouth
Quadequinah
Massasoit
Plymouth Colony
Whirling Thunder
Paul H. Douglas
Illinois
Pat Backes
Chicago
When Is Next Big Quake Due Any Time San Francisco
San Francisco faces ongoing seismic risk with the 1906 quake site and the 1957 tremor cited. Seismologist Don Tocher warns large quakes may still occur on the San Andreas or Hayward faults as energy builds since 1906. Experts note two-thirds of U S seismic activity centers in California and recall historic hard-hit regions from Bakersfield to Charleston.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area
University of California Seismographic Station
Berkeley
Bay Area
San Andreas
California
Mexico
Bay Region
San Andreas Fault
Hayward
Tocher
Bakersfield
Golden State
Mid-West
Mississippi Valley
New Madrid
Mississippi
Tennessee
Reelfoot Lake
Mid
Memphis, Tenn
St. Louis
Gulf of Mexico
Pilferers Paradise in Supermarkets and Security Measures
A discussion on shoplifting in supermarkets cites losses of about 300 million annually and notes why some believe incentives tempt shoppers. It details pilfering tricks like hiding items in bags, swapping price tags, and booster boxes, plus store defenses such as peepholes and cameras to catch thieves.
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Go&resumn
Central Press
Super Market Institute
London
Shakespeare as a TV critic before television
The passage lists Shakespeare lines imagined as TV critiques, noting quotes from Antony and Cleopatra King John Pericles Much Ado About Nothing Twelfth Night Coriolanus Timon of Athens Richard II As You Like It Winters Tale Byronic hints and imagined modern study, placing the bard ahead of his time in media commentary.
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Jerry Klein
Central Press
William Shakespear
Hamlet
Bard of
Avon
Antony and Cleopatra
Pericles
Genteman
Coriolanus
Atcarad
Timon
Athens
Henry VI
Richard
Venus
Adonis
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Athens Messenger
Isle
Defoe
Franklin Johnson
Central Press Association
Selkirk
Santa Cecelia
Damaris Danie
Bristol
Johnny
Robison
Omer Anderson
Massachusetts
New World
Christopher Columbus
Hernando Cortes
Central America
New England
Paul Weatherwax
Indiana University
North
Bat Cave
New Mexico
Leonard J. Snyder
Don Tocher
University of Michigan
Seaboard
Canada
Virginia
Rochester
N. Y
Newark
N. J
Boston
Oneonta
Charleston
D. C
Fred Bidwell
Atomic Energy Commission
Kenosha
Wis
Milwaukee
Bard
Macbeth
Antony
Vlevpatra
Gentlemen of Verona
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