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...only by 1) unanimous consent, which Southern Representatives will be happy to refuse because they don't like the idea of statehood for multiracial Hawaii, or 2) a go-ahead from its legislative traffic cop, the Rules Committee, controlled by the G.O.P. leadership, which is notably lukewarm toward Alaskan statehood...
Last week the U.S. Senate showed rare skill at sleight of hand. In one and the same motion, it passed the Hawaiian-Alaskan statehood bill by an impressive 57-to-28 vote and killed the chances of both territories for this year. Reason: the bill, as many of the Senators were fully aware, cannot get through the House...
...Cinemaker Walt Disney, already the winner of 18 Oscars, won four more for his documentaries Bear Country, The Alaskan Eskimo, The Living Desert, and the cartoon Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom...
...Senate Interior Committee approved Alaskan statehood 14 to 1 (Louisiana's Democratic Senator Russell Long). The bill follows one for Hawaiian statehood to the Senate floor, where opponents will attempt to link them together and then kill them both...
...underbelly, notably on Rumania's Ploesti oil refineries. After V-E day, briefly succeeded Curtis Le-May as commander of the Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific, four months later took over as boss of the Air Materiel Command, Wright Field. In 1947, Twining got command of the Alaskan theater, in 1950 became General Van-denberg's Vice Chief of Staff, and in June 1953, Chief of Staff. When Twining, thinking fondly of retirement, was notified of his appointment to the top job, he called his wife and said: "Well, I'm hooked...