Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather held them up for nearly ten hours. "For Hubert, it was a bad break," says Sidey, "but for me, it was good: it gave me a lot of extra hours with him." In the days that followed, Sidey went with Humphrey to Seattle, Spokane, Salt Lake City, Alaska, Chicago, Milwaukee and New York. Last weekend, after Sidey watched Humphrey in action at a major Democratic shindig in Washington, Candidate Humphrey drew aside Sidey's wife Anne, confided: "Your husband has been probing me like a dentist's deep drill...
...Humphrey pace would have put a less eupeptic man in the hospital. In the previous four days he had flown from Washington to New York to Ketchikan, Alaska, and back to Seattle, Chicago, and then trained into Milwaukee. At every stop there were speeches, dinners, press conferences, strategy meetings. He was almost always in motion (in Ketchikan, it included dancing with the local ladies). In the four days sleep was something to be snatched on planes and trains, fatigue was countered with vitamin pills and the sheer momentum of Hubert Humphrey's astonishing vitality. At times the strain showed...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Hope took Jayne Mansfield to Alaska as a holiday present for U.S. troops, filmed his show there...
...Washington, 10,000 boys and girls from every state but Alaska and Nevada -as well as from Europe, Singapore, Jamaica and Brazil-assembled under the auspices of Youth for Christ for a three-day "Capital Teen Convention" at the National Guard Armory, under the bannered slogan: TEENS TELLING TEENS IN THE WORLD'S DECADE OF DESTINY. Layman Ted W. Engstrom of the Evangelical Free Church, president of Youth for Christ International, urged his plaid-shirted and bobby-soxed audience to write down the motto: "Christ Constantly in Command, Christ Completely in Control," and to put it into practice...
Died. John Oliver La Gorce, 79, longtime writer (1905-59) and editor (1954-57) of the National Geographic Magazine, who reported scenery and customs from remote parts of the world where he constantly traveled, gave his name to a glacier in Alaska, a mountain peak in Antarctica, and an island off Miami; in Washington...