Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SISTFR ALISON is in Africa now. About two months ago she and other Peuce Corps volunteers left their training camp in Frogmore, South Carolina, for Mauntania, a barrenarid nation the size of Alaska, just south of Morocco. I am in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is 3 a.m. An autumn chill has penetrated the walls and filled my room, so i must wear a jacket as I type, My sister is so faraway, on the other side of the world, that I imagine is afternoon there right now, I'm not sure what season it is in Mauritania...
GOVERNOR SENATOR ALA. George C. Wallace(D) No Race ALASKA * No Race ARIZ. Bruce Babbin (D) Dennis DeConcini (D) ARK. Bill Clinton (D) No Race CALIF. George Deukmoflan (R) Pete Wilson (R) COLO. Richard D. Lamm (D) No Race CONN. William A. O'Neill (D) Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R) DEL. No Race William V. Roth Jr. (R) FLA. Bob Graham (D) Lawton Chiles (D) GA. Joe Frank Harris (D) No Race HAWAII George Ariyoshi (D) Spark M. Marsunaga (D) IDAHO * No Race ILL. Adlai E. Stevenson III (D) No Race IND. No Race Richard G. Lugar (R) IOWA Terry...
Richard Nixon likes to recall how for six weeks in 1958 he bounced around the country in a propeller-driven plane, a Vice President exhorting the faithful in Nebraska, tramping through Alaska's Matanuska Valley (even though Alaska was not yet a state) and thundering his hopes in Michigan, labor's stronghold. Ike, wisely, had decided to stay in the White House. "The roof fell in," Nixon remembers with a melancholy laugh. "We lost 47 seats in the House...
...party's greatest success so far has been in Alaska, where a Libertarian has been elected to the state legislature. While there, Dick Randolph has successfully secured the repeal of the state income tax, and he is now running for governor...
...year that Malaurie completed months of darkness and months of light living among the vanishing "Hyperboreans," the name ancient Greeks gave to a mythic northern race. The author prefers "Polar Eskimo," and estimates that there are about 100,000 of them: 39,000 in Greenland, 35,000 in Alaska, 23,000 in Canada and 1,600 in the Chukotski region of Siberia...