Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turns out, the net does catch a few apparently innocent fish. Aroostook County, Me.; Elmore County, Idaho; Apache County, Ariz., and the whole state of Alaska would be subject to federal control under the new bill because they, too, used literacy tests and failed to turn out 50% of their eligible voters in November. Says Katzenbach: "As far as I know, it may have snowed in Maine on Election Day, and that's why they had a low turnout." To get federal dispensation, these places would have only to show that they have not been guilty of discrimination...
...team is cosmopolitan enough to stage its own Olympics. Its members hall from England, Ireland, Nigeria, and Greece as well as 21 states, including Alaska...
Senator Ernest Gruening '07 (D-Alaska) and journalist I.F. Stone will address the demonstrators at a rally near the Washington Monument...
...Viet Nam, said Rusk, "is an obligation under the 1954 agreements, under the 1962 accords on Laos, and under general international law." It was underwritten last year by a joint resolution of Congress, passed by a 502-2 vote (the holdouts: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse and Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening) authorizing the President to take "whatever measures necessary" to protect the sovereignty of South Viet...
...will be installed. Studies show that factory output rises with air conditioning; one-third of all industrial plants built in the last five years have been air conditioned. Since air conditioners now cool, heat, control humidity, eliminate dust and reduce noise, even 50% of the school buildings erected in Alaska last year were air conditioned...