Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the bill reached the Senate floor, the Democratic leadership had to fight desperately to restore the $12 million. They finally eked out a 46-to-45 victory. The Administration resorted to some arduous logrolling, as with "Operation Igloo" involving Alaska Democrat E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, who was craftily withholding his support for rent subsidies. Just as he hoped, Bartlett suddenly received promises that the Administration would arrange loans for Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians living in Alaska's remote Arctic regions-a pet project on which he had hitherto received not a scintilla of White House encouragement. After voting...
...from no fewer than seven different congressional panels. Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, still smarting from McNamara's curt brush-off last summer of a Stennis report on materiel shortages, announced that his Senate Preparedness Investigating subcommittee is undertaking "an overall assessment of the extent of our military commitments." Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening, chairman of a Senate Government Operations subcommittee, will examine "unnecessary and wasteful disposals" of surplus military vehicles...
...flights of as long as 30 to 90 days sometime in the 1970s. However, the group's 18 to 24 months of exhaustive training will be principally aimed at following up the first manned landings of Americans on the moon. The class will travel to Mexico, Iceland and Alaska to familiarize itself with lunarlike topography. Among Class 5's possible missions: lunar excursions lasting up to a month, using portable living quarters and "moonmobiles," and an as yet undefined program for a manned landing on Mars...
...only in the past year. Word spread through the kiddie grapevine with the help of once-a-week TV appearances on NBC's Birthday House and a plug from Barbra Streisand (who owns two) on her recent CBS special. Today gerbils are in demand from New York to Alaska. In La Grange, Ill., the Parkway Pet Store sold 16 after putting a sign in the window. In Atlanta, the Ark Pet Shop has already sold 125, has more orders than it can handle. Creative Playthings sells some 50 gerbils a week at $15 a pair, through its Manhattan retail...
...printed promotional pamphlets in 22 languages, retained a public relations firm and hired an additional 1,800 employees for the last weeks of the job. The Office of Economic Opportunity contributed $2,000,000 and 8,000 workers. Using planes and dog sleds for transportation in remote areas of Alaska, and a horse to reach at least one Maine community, Government workers combed the cities and the countryside for subscribers...