Word: alaskas
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...this bill. When President Johnson signed it Aug. 6, he promised to enforce it with "dis patch," and Katzenbach went at the job with crackling alacrity. Dead-End Counties. Under the law's "automatic trigger" formula, the Gov ernment is empowered to send federal examiners into Alabama, Alaska, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Caro lina and Virginia, plus 26 North Caro lina counties and Arizona's Apache County, where literacy tests have been in use and where less than 50% of the voting-age population took part in the 1964 elections. The urgent problem was: Which counties...
...Census Bureau certified Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Alaska and parts of North Carolina as areas that have voter-qualification tests that impede registration and where 50% or more of the voting-age population failed to register or vote in 1964. Federal examiners were to be sent to parts of some of these states with authority to register disenfranchised persons. At week's end 45 examiners, having gone through a three-day training course at Civil Service Commission headquarters, already were on their...
Capping a recent series of strikes in places as diverse as Libya and Alaska, Marathon last week announced that it had begun drilling the first exploratory oil well ever attempted in Northern Ireland, also prepared to tow a large drilling rig from the British coast into the North Sea, where it will explore one of the world's richest new oil and gas regions. In Bavaria, where it is making its first big move into petrochemicals, it is starting to build a plant that will use Libyan crude to manufacture acetylene and ethylene. In the U.S., the company...
Fairbanks, Alaska...
...DETECTION. ADC has developed a radar network that includes the Pinetree Line along the northern U.S. border, the Mid-Canada Line, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line at the Arctic Circle, and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) bases at Clear, Alaska; Thule, Greenland; and Fyling-dales Moor, England. Under development: over-the-horizon radar capable of detecting missiles on actual launching from Russia or China, which will give the U.S. 30 minutes of warning instead of the present...