Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovery on Alaska's North Slope opens the 49th state to great economic development...
...Chairman prescient? Could he have anticipated by more than four decades an ingenious scheme just conceived by University of Alaska Geophysicist David Stone? If Mao had carried his maxim a little farther, says Stone in a tongue-in-cheek letter to Geotimes, China could have threatened distant enemies with mass destruction years before the development of nuclear warheads and long-range missiles...
Prosciutto and Melon. The disputed merger is special because British Petroleum is 49% owned by the U.S.'s staunchest foreign ally, the British government. Equally important, BP stands to benefit hugely from its oil finds on Alaska's North Slope. BP has discovered reserves estimated at an enormous 5 billion barrels, or about 25% of the total believed to lie under that barren region. Seeking marketing outlets for its crude, a BP subsidiary last March bought approximately 8,250 East Coast filling stations from Sinclair...
Tuesday, October 14 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Heinz Seilmann, the noted wildlife photographer and naturalist, patiently filmed unusual scenes depicting "The Mystery of Animal Behavior" in Aus tralia, Alaska, Africa, Germany. Nesting birds, pregnant fish and socially interacting sea otters behave for the camera...
...challenge, and the ships turned around and headed for the less hazardous Prince of Wales Strait. As the Manhattan cleared the last patch of ice, the crew and guests poured champagne to celebrate. From there, it was only 500 miles of open water to the oilfields at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska...