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...bird is a Tlingit Indian totem pole--a striking introduction to the museum's current exhibition of American Indian and Eskimo art. This exhibit, which the museum calls "the most important exhibition of Native Alaskan art ever assembled" finally brings ethnic art into the main exhibition halls of a great art museum, a place which, by its quality, it has long deserved...
...ordered a stepped-up search for oil-even though the world then had a crude glut. In the past decade, Exxon's worldwide reserves have increased more than 9 billion bbl., or 21%. Crews are now searching, with good prospects, on Canada's Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula not far from the Alaskan North Slope and off the coasts of Southeast Asia-among many other places...
Peter's Sportswear of Philadelphia prints the words "Alaskan or Canadian wolf" of the labels attached to its parkas. Schott's Brothers of New York uses the words "genuine wolf" on its labels...
...Alaskan natives, whose lands were also acquired illegally by Americans in 1867 (there was no native consent), recently received 40 millions acres of land and $950 million in compensation from Congress, indicating that a similar' compensation for Hawaiians is feasible...
Seven Steps. In his State of the Union II, Nixon also presented proposals to alleviate the energy crisis. He recommended seven steps, including construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline, deregulation of natural-gas prices at the wellhead - a step that would surely force prices sharply upward - and the funding of further research into coal gasification and other new energy sources. Finally, Nixon urged Congress to take action on a whole series of domes tic programs, including the better-schools bill and the better-communities bill, two revenue-sharing measures that would transfer from federal to local authorities much...