Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mute, snow-shouldered peaks of Mount McKinley, the continent's highest mountain, four climbers pecked perilously downward from the 20,320-ft. summit in the white cold of an Alaskan night. Bound to one another by lengths of rope and sinews of courage, they edged along toward the 18,200-ft. level on the sharp west buttress-and then one slipped. As the first fell, and then the second, the third and the fourth, one of them swung his ax into the stubborn ice, but it did not hold. The four fell about 400 ft. and then rolled...
...call for help: all four in the upper party were injured -broken limbs, head injuries, frostbite-and now Mrs. Bading herself, a slight (95 lbs., 4 ft. 11 in.) woman, was sick from lack of oxygen. Before Crews finished radioing his report, one of the greatest rescue operations of Alaskan history was under way. For four grueling days, mountain climbers struggled toward the peak, and daredevil airmen dropped supplies and ferried rescuers, winged among deadly granite walls...
...Barrow. The University of Alaska might dismay some Outside purists. "I wouldn't send my son here," concedes one faculty member privately, "but I enjoy the work immensely. What a challenge! It's like working in a slum." One reason: the university is obliged to accept any Alaskan high school graduate (at free tuition), has a 40% freshman drop-out rate. Unlike most state universities, it also has twice as many men (545) as women (274), no solace for half the men on 30-below winter nights...
...Case Against. Opponents of acceptance stood on firm technical and military grounds. They argued that a ban would freeze nuclear development at its current pioneering stage. It wo.uld stymie such peaceful nuclear pursuits as atom-powered space probes and massive use of atomic explosives to blast a new Alaskan harbor. It would make more difficult the already difficult job of keeping together skilled teams of scientists in AEC labs. It would stall the development of clean, small, highly mobile tactical weapons...
...ALASKAN OIL BOOM is promised by a new well brought in by Standard Oil Co. of California on Kenai Peninsula, 40 miles south of Anchorage. The discovery improves prospects for construction of a $4,000,000, 22-mile pipeline between the field and Cook Inlet, where the crude oil will be shipped to West Coast refineries...