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Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay was responsible for the joke. On an Alaskan inspection trip last summer, he found voters bitter about the Republican decision to press for Hawaiian but not for Alaskan statehood. Instead of mum bling weasel words, McKay publicly told statehood advocates that they were too belligerent in their approach to Congress and suggested that they "start acting like ladies and gentlemen." He resented charges that his department was trying to hold on to Alaska as an "empire." "I get sick and tired," he told an Anchorage audience, "of being kicked around...
...Force last week announced that it has ordered production to begin on its first supersonic jet bomber, the B58 Hustler. To be built at Fort Worth by Consolidated Vultee, the B58 can carry the hydrogen bomb, but will have to be based at Alaskan or overseas fields because of its relatively short range. The new medium bomber will probably not replace the 600 m.p.h. B-47 for at least two years...
...McKay is credited with having told Alaskans off. Aside from the fact that no one likes to be told that he is not a gentleman, what McKay did was to write off the Republican Party in the Territory in the coming fall elections . . . Stateside, McKay may be a great man, but his treatment of Alaskan statehood and his recent visit here left a great deal to be desired...
...were briefed on how to answer such adolescent questions as "Where is God?" (the answer: "Everywhere"). Exploring God's World spent an agreeable half-hour exhibiting sea shells that were shaped like harps or striped like zebras or wore fur coats (to guard the shells against acids in Alaskan waters...
...first vacation as Secretary, after the hard-driving Alaskan swing, McKay went on a hard-riding packhorse trip in California's Yosemite National Park (part of Interior's domain). For five days McKay, wearing a comfortable cowboy outfit, roughed it frontier-style-riding the steep Sierra trail, cooking in the open, camping out at night. This week, at his summer house on the Oregon coast, he relaxed with his family (13 in all, with Mabel McKay cooking...