Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early this month, with the help of a Seattle heart specialist, Dr. Robert L. King, the adventurous physician got his electrocardiogram. Back again in Boston last week, 66-year-old Dr. White explained that the Alaskan expedition was only a beginning. Now that the equipment has been tested, he wants to try it on even larger whales...
Last week in Washington, Vice Admiral Robert C. Giffen (ret.), who had commanded U.S. forces during the great Alaskan "Battle of the Blips." had reason to recall his embarrassing adventure. Washington itself had just lived through a phantom invasion when unidentified blips on a Civil Aeronautics Authority radar brought jet fighters screaming over from Delaware to hunt "flying saucers" (TIME, Aug. 4). The fighters had shot down no night-flying saucers, but two of them had found radar targets. It appeared later that they had been drawing a bead on each other...
...Navy, said Admiral Giffen, was convinced by now that its Alaskan battle force had steamed in under a high-riding layer of warm air that acted as a kind of electronic ceiling. Radar pulses bounced off the "inversion" layer and echoed back from the Amchitka mountains, more than 100 miles away. A similar temperature inversion was hovering over the capital when the saucers flew in. Admiral Giffen thought that atmospheric conditions were still the best explanation for the ghostly targets...
...Wyman), the picture traces Rogers' career from Oklahoma cowpuncher to Wild-West-show trick roper, vaudeville lasso artist-monologist, and poet lariat and sagebrush sage of stage, screen, radio, banquet table, speakers' platform and syndicated column. The picture ends with Rogers' death at 55, during an Alaskan flight with Wiley Post...
...times he came close to being nonplused. One of three Alaskan delegates- a small, weatherbeaten man named Gerrit Snider-strode up to him, clutching a bundle wrapped in newspapers. "Would you appoint a native Alaskan, a real sourdough governor of Alaska?" the visitor demanded. Startled, Ike paused a moment, and then said yes. Snider immediately unwrapped the parcel and yanked out a two-skin sable choker...