Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nefertiti nose, they found some Bugs Bunny teeth. For the Brooklyn Jewish goil, they got a shikse from Alaska, and so after 708 performances and a gross for the show of $7,800,000, Barbra Streisand left Broadway's Funny Girl, bequeathing the Fanny Brice part to toothsome Mimi Mines, 32. It was a tough act to follow, but Mimi grinned gratefully: "It's easier to follow a good act than a bad one-it's not like this show was a bomb." Neither was Mimi. Everyone of course would think of Barbra, but after...
...coast in World War II LSTs, which are able to disgorge their cargo in shallow water right on the beach. Currently only 14 LSTs, manned largely by Japanese, are available to do the job. But last week the Pentagon was weighing a contract with Vancouver's Alaska Barge & Transport Co. to put its oceangoing tugs and barges to work in Viet Nam waters. And the installation last week of a 300-ft. De Tong pier at Cam Ranh Bay upped South Viet Nam's port capacity 15% at one stroke...
Residents of Anchorage, Alaska, saw a dramatic demonstration of that strange phenomenon during the disastrous 1964 earthquake, says Columbia University Geologist Paul Kerr, whose investigation is described in the current issue of Scientific American. While probing beneath the battered sand, gravel and silt surface of Anchorage during the past two summers, Kerr studied an underlying layer of quick clay from 10 to 30 ft. thick. During the three minutes of the quake's violent up-and-down jolting, he concluded, some of the quick clay under Anchorage turned into liquid, triggering the damaging landslides that literally floated large sections...
...believe that we asked ourselves into this war in Vietnam," Senator Ernest Gruening '07 (D-Alaska) said last night before the Law School Democrats at Harkness Commons...
Most of those who deliberately seek adventure have their moments of selfcriticism. For all his enthusiasm, Alaska's Bishop Gordon sometimes wonders whether "the really heroic people are not the ones who travel 10,000 miles by dog sled, but those who stay 10,000 days in one place. I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day." That view is echoed by Amherst's Historian John William Ward, who sees something "pathetic and sentimental" in the American adventurer. "Today," he says...