Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). North to Alaska, adventure during the Gold Rush, with John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Capucine, Ernie Kovacs and Fabian...
...given little or no warning of Betsy's approach. The most authoritative critic was disputatious Dr. Edward Teller, of H-bomb fame, who was in the city for a speaking engagement five days after the hurricane struck; he noted that a well-run warning and evacuation system in Alaska had given residents ample notice of a tidal wave in the wake of last year's devastating earthquake. "Six people died," said Teller, "but the figure could have been hundreds." In fact, New Orleans officials had expected flooding from Lake Pontchartrain to the north, whereas...
Dams are needed for hydroelectricity and to create water reservoirs. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. is seeking to build a storage facility on Storm King Mountain overlooking the Hudson 55 miles north of Manhattan; the Army Corps of Engineers has plans to dam Alaska's Yukon River at Rampart Canyon into a lake the size of New Jersey that could water the U.S. West Coast...
Conservationists claim that Storm King's outlets would destroy fish life and that a major portion of Alaska's wildlife would be flooded out by the Rampart dam. Outlook: unsettled, with storms...
...Police brutality is not a reason; it is an excuse for weak-minded lawbreakers. JOHN DANIEL WHITE Mount Edgecumbe, Alaska...