Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John S. Crawford, 36, spends weeks at a time as a wildlife photographer in the remote reaches of Alaska, Canada and the Pacific Northwest. He has suffered eleven bone frac tures, and frostbitten toes are a commonplace. Once, when stranded for eight days at the tip of the Alaskan peninsula, he survived by fishing safely while a grizzly bear pack lurked near by. He rarely carries a rifle. "A rifle," he says, "is a crutch. If you've got one, there are likely to be times when you break down and use it. If you just say, 'Hell...
...William J. Gordon Jr., 47, left Virginia Theological Seminary 22 years ago on assignment to Alaska, where he is now Episcopal bishop. He lived five years in an Eskimo village, once made a 35-day trek from Point Hope to Point Barrow by dog sled; he flies 50,000 miles a year, much of it in bad weather and to isolated areas. "Most people," he says, "wait on their islands of insecurity for the world to overwhelm them. In most of the U.S., no one has to take risks. Up here, you feel challenged. When I fly in bad weather...
...material, Claiborne has trekked all across the country. Last month he got as far as Alaska, where he gamely tried boiled whale-a dish on which he delicately neglected to pass gustatory judgment...
...times am compelled to speak slowly and cautiously if I am to enunciate clearly." In every other respect, however, Ike today seems as chipper as ever. This week, in appreciation of his present vigor and past feats, Republicans will gather to salute the former President at banquet tables from Alaska to Connecticut. The occasion: Dwight Eisenhower's 75th birthday...
...governmental structure of the newborn United States, Thomas Jefferson went on record as favoring "little or no diplomatic establishment." That wistful measure of the proper size for the U.S. State Department prevailed for more than a century. At the time when Secretary of State William Seward was boldly buying Alaska, he was head of an office with two assistants and 60 clerks. Secretary John Hay negotiated the Panama treaty and otherwise carried out Teddy Roosevelt's active diplomacy on a departmental budget of less than $190,000 a year. Before World War II, Cordell Hull used...