Word: island
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...many white sympathizers in the Bay Area. Local restaurants shipped in festive meals for Christmas, and cartons of donated food arrive regularly at the San Francisco Indian Center, a social headquarters for the roughly 20,000 Indians who live in the Bay Area. Still, living conditions on the island are painfully primitive. The Indians are cooking and keeping warm with round-the-clock campfires and struggling to maintain sanitary facilities. But one Indian acidly observed: "It's still better than most reservations...
...Indians may be getting their point across. Not long after they settled in, Interior Secretary Walter Hickel took Alcatraz off the list of surplus federal property, a move Indians regard as a first step toward winning full control of the island from the U.S. Government. Last week Representative George Brown, a Los Angeles Democrat, introduced a resolution to transfer Alcatraz to the Indians for their proposed cultural center. Ten Congressmen joined him as cosponsors...
...Desert Island Discs, a popular BBC radio program that asks celebrities what books and records they would want with them on the proverbial desert island, the questions were put to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 82. No problem with the book. Montgomery unhesitatingly chose his own History of Warfare, emphasizing that its most valuable passages deal with "how we could stop people fighting." That question is now foremost in his mind. Asked to choose his favorite disc, the old soldier could not decide between The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Oh, For the Wings of a Dove...
Charles W. Wheatley, 34, Princeton, Princeton, N.J.: "For me, the students are the only really viable political entity . . . Older faculty are ineducable when it comes to the revolution, the movement. They won't be shot, you know; a little island will be found for them some place...
This month, in an important new move, Du Pont expects to complete its first domestic acquisition in a quarter of a century. It will acquire Endo Laboratories, a small Long Island-based pharmaceutical maker (1968 sales: $22 million). Du Pont is obviously buying marketing flair, not volume. "We need Endo," says Roger E. Drexel, manager of Du Font's industrial and biochemicals department. "Without a feedback of marketing information, we reduce our chances of success with a new pharmaceutical product...