Word: alaska
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...Easy way to win a bet: ask which are the southernmost, northernmost, westernmost and easternmost states. Answers: Hawaii, Alaska, Alaska-and Alaska, which is easternmost because it crosses the 180th meridian...
...spends more than $25 million a year to help provide contraceptive know-how to 180,000 women in 41 states. Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, which cautiously began underwriting projects nearly two years ago in communities like Corpus Christi, Texas, supports programs in 75 cities from Juneau, Alaska, to San Juan, P.R. Half a dozen Government agencies-notably the Department of Health, Education and Welfare-finance the dissemination of advice and devices from pills to diaphragms. Even the Defense Department has joined the act by making drugs, contraceptives and sterilization available to 500,000 military wives...
...Republicans' mid-term resurgence gained a little extra luster last week. In Juneau, Democrat William Egan, 52, Alaska's only elected Governor in eight years of statehood, formally acknowledged his defeat by Republican Walter J. Hickel, 47, a hotel and construction millionaire who landed in Anchorage in 1940 with 37? in his pocket. Egan originally conceded the day after the election, only to withdraw his concession when Hickel's lead narrowed. Last week's official canvass put the vote at 33,145 for Hickel, 32,065 for Egan and 1,085 for an independent. The outcome...
Even though two weeks have passed since the elections, Alaska and Georgia still do not know who their new Governors will...
...Alaska will probably be first to resolve its gubernatorial contest, which became a guessing game when Democratic Governor William Egan 1) conceded the election, thinking that he had lost by at least 2,500 votes to Republican Walter Hickel, 2) de-conceded after Hickel's lead shrank, but 3) refused to re-concede when the final unofficial count gave Hickel a margin of 887 votes. At week's end the first official canvass of returns was incomplete and the inevitable recount not yet begun. Election authorities hoped to finish...