Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday newspaper penetrates seven of every ten U.S. households, where it reaches a phenomenal-if not always attentive-readership of 120 million. It comes in all sizes, weights and shapes, from the Juneau, Alaska Empire (circ. 3,050, an average 14 pages) to journalism's undisputed heavyweight champion, the Sunday New York Times, which often runs to 600 pages and tips the scales at 6 Ibs. In the massive Sunday barrage of newsprint, there is something for almost everyone: reprises of old murders, comics, crossword puzzles, fiction, verse, quotations from Scripture, galleries of young ladies recently betrothed, advice...
...next year: a Los Angeles-based West Coast edition. It intends to solicit much of its circulation in the Los Angeles area. But the Western Times also intends to reach far-flung subscribers by airmail on the day of issue elsewhere in California, in Oregon and Washington, and possibly Alaska, British Columbia and Mexico. On a selective basis, the Times will also invade inland points such as Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Phoenix...
...years Russia has tried to bully the U.N. into admitting Outer Mongolia, its oldest satellite. Wedged between Russia and Red China, Outer Mongolia is an Alaska-sized territory of 1,000,000 nomadic people; hide-covered tent villages still dot the high plateaus, and the country still depends economically on its 21 million head of horses, camels, yaks and sheep. Led by the U.S. and Nationalist China, the West has always been able to block the admission of Outer Mongolia to the U.N. on the grounds that it was not an independent nation, but since 1924 a Russian puppet...
...North American skies were far from empty. Aloft were 1,800 NORAD fighter planes, from long-ranging F-101s to speedy new F-106s on some 6,000 intercept sorties. On the radarscopes of distant destroyers and aircraft, of early-warning stations from the Canadian Arctic and Alaska to towers planted deep in Atlantic waters, appeared a multitude of bogey blips. They were caused by about 250 Strategic Air Command B-478, B-528 and refueling tankers, along with Vulcan bombers of Britain's Royal Air Force. Many of these planes were homebound from foreign bases; others had slipped...
...this evidence that bats can transmit rabies without biting, the Public Health Service assigned Dr. Denny Constantine, 36, a lifelong student of bats, and a crew of hardy assistants to the ugly and dangerous job of checking further. Researcher Constantine is not easily daunted. During field work in Alaska six years ago, he crawled into a den of hibernating bears and took the rectal temperature of the biggest one while pacifying the restive animal with lumps of sugar. But for his new job he needed more equanimity than ever. Bat caves are chambers of horror. Their floors are deep...