Word: alaska
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University of Alaska LIEUT. GENERAL (ret.) JAMES H. DooLITTLE LL.D...
SINCE the law that proposed the new wheat plan excluded Hawaii and Alaska, farmers in those states were not eligible to vote. Wheat production in New Hampshire is so slight that no one voted there. The only states in which the plan was given the necessary two-thirds majority...
...priced lawyers always on hand to interpret them. Snorted an exasperated Englishman: "In England, lawyers tend to be kept in their proper place as advisers." It may surprise U.S. businessmen, but foreign companies make few complaints about U.S. labor. In fact, Takuji Ohshimo, executive director of the Japanese-owned Alaska Lumber & Pulp Co., finds negotiating with U.S. unions a relief. "Their demands are strictly economic," he says. "This makes it very different from Japan, where labor disputes often get helplessly involved because of class-war cries and political hues...
...Rescue Council. The twins spent college summers guiding footsore tourists up the steep slopes of 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier; in all, they scaled Rainier something like 70 times. Three years ago, Jim and Lou were members of an ill-fated expedition that got stranded for four days on Alaska's 20,320-ft. Mount McKinley when one of the climbers slipped and pulled the others (who were roped to him) down a steep slope; only the Whittakers' superb physical condition and mountaineering skill pulled them through. "Mountain climbing brings out the best in a person," Jim Whittaker...
Spring skiers are finding this out in increasing numbers from Alaska on down. They turned out in thousands last weekend around Lake Tahoe-at Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows and the Donner Pass. Mount Shasta, some 250 miles north of San Francisco, is one of the more popular areas, as are Mount Hood, near Portland, Ore., and Washington's Mount Baker...