Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...otter is coming back on the market. Under protection the herds have multiplied to a present population of some 40,000-enough so that Alaska has begun harvesting a strictly controlled number of pelts. Last week more than 100 buyers representing the world's top fur houses converged on the Seattle Fur Exchange to compete for Alaska's initial harvest. In less than two hours of bidding, Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, who revived the trade as a state-owned enterprise, presided over the sale of 826 skins. The record-breaking top price: $2,300 per skin, paid...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Singer Jimmy Dean hunts Alaska moose; Chicago White Soxers Gary Peters and Hoyt Wilhelm shoot pisingo (tree duck) in Colombia; Curt Gowdy and his sons fish for trout in Wyoming...
...Kosygin's aides even hinted that perhaps the best way off the hook would be for the U.S. to pay a fat fine for its supposed violation of North Korean waters-as Russian trawlers had to do after being nabbed within U.S. territorial limits off Alaska last March...
...mostly of converted trawlers and hydrographic craft, all bristling with antennas and sensitive snooping gear. Just as the Pueblo and her kin prowl the international waters off China, North Korea and the Soviet Union, Russian trawlers are stationed off California, South Carolina, Florida's Cape Kennedy, Guam and Alaska. A Soviet spy ship dogs every move of U.S. aircraft carriers on "Yankee Station," the 45,000-sq.-mi. area of the Tonkin Gulf from which American air strikes over North Viet Nam originate, flashing alerts to Hanoi. Other Russian ELINT ships shadow the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean...
...nation that the volume of construction during the present decade will exceed everything built in America since the Revolutionary War. At the same time, more and more Americans are concerned that progress should not destroy America's heritage. From New Hampshire to Hawaii, New Orleans to Kodiak, Alaska, New York City to Ord, Neb., history hawks are fluttering against the wrecker's ball. Often their efforts are too little-but less and less are they too late...