Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grading in Alaska...
...article "Upgrading in Alaska" presents a very inaccurate picture of the University of Alaska and does us a great disservice. I am sorry that your writer sacrificed factual information for sensational statements...
...pilots at far-flung airstrips-England, Japan, Turkey, Alaska-began to see the strange, gliderlike jet come and go on its errands. But details of its mission and its performance were hard to come by. Whenever a U-2 landed, military police swarmed around it. Its pilots were civilians, and when an airman would nudge up close at the officers' club bar to swap plane lore, the U-2 pilot would smile and move along...
...NATO recently gave the code name Bounder, appears to match the U.S.'s 6-58 Hustler; the new plane is presumed to be even more advanced. Soviet forces have been energetically improving and expanding far northern airbases from the Kola Peninsula near Scandinavia to the Chukotski Peninsula opposite Alaska. Crews of some 1,000 medium Badger bombers and 200 heavy Bisons have been training hard at airborne refueling operations, are currently rated on a par with U.S. SAC crews. Some of these planes have been seen landing on floating ice islands, which the Russians maintain as emergency landing strips...
Pioneering Chance. In his seven years, Patty has nearly tripled enrollment, doubled the faculty, added $7,000,000 worth of new buildings. More important, the university has really begun serving Alaska. It rolls out useful pamphlets, from "How to Cook Moosemeat" to "Hints for Wilderness Wives." Its four community colleges (Anchorage, Juneau, Ketchikan, Palmer) teach everything from aircraft maintenance to Tlingit Indian culture. To help exploit Alaska's rich resources, it rummages heaven and earth. The topflight Geophysical Institute has probably done more aurora borealis research than any other group in the world. The mining school, with...