Word: alaskan
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...darkhorse who is exacting comment, though, is Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, an accomplished leader who has spent the last four years as the Number Two GOP man in the Senate, the Majority Whip. Stevens has been running on the issue of Senate procedural reform, and experts say that cause currently has a lot of sympathy in the halls of the Capitol...
This year's crop, of new students includes a former pro basketball player and a former dean from Princeton University (see accompanying story), an Alaskan fisherman and several Midwestern farmers, and ranges in age from 18 to 41. All have survived a tortuous--and some would say torturous--weeding out process that began a year...
...been to attempt a solo 1,200-mile dogsled run across the South Pole from the Ross Sea to the Weddell Sea. But his early planning, which needed the cooperation of the Argentine government, was disrupted by the Falkland Islands war. Instead, Uemura set his sights on the Alaskan peak, which he had scaled alone before, in the summer of 1970. "I know that in the eyes of many people I would only look like a Don Quixote," Uemura once replied when asked what drove him. "But I always want to know the limits of human endurance-or the limits...
...Harding's final illness was undoubtedly brought on by his strenuous exertions on the last few days of his trip, especially his arduous day at Seattle after landing from his Alaskan journey. Indirectly his death at this time may undoubtedly be traced to excessive work. His death, following the severe illness of President Wilson produced by the same cause, has led to many suggestions that the duties of the Presidency be divided so that they should not fall with full heaviness upon...
...first blush of the approaching dawn was barely visible as Captain Chun nosed his craft back into the Alaskan sky at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. in Anchorage). He set off on "Jet Route 501," a southwesterly course along the Aleutian Islands and one of five commonly traveled flight paths at the start of the 3,800-mile run to Seoul. A checkpoint Bethel, about 340 miles wes of Anchorage, he would switch to what pilots call "Red Route 20," the most northerly and direct of the internationally recognized courses to Tokyo and Seoul. It would take him off the Soviet...