Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in an 800-word letter to Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, Ike publicly changed his mind. Wrote he: "I realize that in important segments of our people and of other nations this question is regarded as a moral one, and therefore scarcely a fit subject for federal legislation. With their feelings I can and do sympathize. But I cannot help believe that the prevention of human degradation and starvation is likewise a moral-as well as a material-obligation resting upon every enlightened government. If we now ignore the plight of those unborn generations which, because...
...hard-surface tennis courts running full tilt, and two deluxe cottages, appropriately called Wimbledon and Forest Hills. The Tennis Ranch is operated as a private club, and among its members are such notables as Procter & Gamble President Howard Morgens and Alaska Steamship Co. President David Edward Skinner. Five-day clinics for couples who want to perfect their mixed doubles game are held eight months a year, and the couples are expected to play tennis five hours a day. "We compensate by giving them breakfast in bed, a sauna bath and a massage," Proprietor John Gardiner says...
...airlines have stepped up their advertising budgets and, since everyone now has roughly the same equipment, have switched to stressing the gleaming cities and glorious resorts to which they fly. Western now offers "North Country Adventures" in Alaska; United boosts a trip to San Francisco in the East and one to New York in the West. National has a ladies' flight to Florida that includes, for coach fare plus $171, a seven-day hotel stay and lessons in health and beauty care, sculpture, bridge and stock-market investing. Along with car-rental companies, airlines are pushing plane-car packages...
Japanese "Piracy." The embarrassing fact is that after they leave their spawning grounds upriver from Alaska's Bristol Bay the sockeye swim farther out to sea than anyone imagined When the U.S., Canada and Japan instituted their North Pacific fisheries treaty in 1953, North American negotiators set 175 degrees west longitude as the eastward limit for Japanese fishermen, confident that no Alaska salmon ventured that far west. But Japa nese fishermen found plenty of sockeye outside the boundary, and marine biologists soon learned the truth: in its life cycle, the sockeye swims out around the Aleutian islands for more...
...fishing towns of northern Washington State and coastal Alaska, the sockeye salmon is more than just a fish. It is a recurring miracle, a gift of God, the source of steady jobs, paid-up bills, money in the bank, new boats. Each year the local fishing industry scoops up some 6,000,000 of the 2-ft.-long, silver-blue sockeye, which account for 20% of the area's $50 million salmon catch and fetch higher prices than the lower-grade chum and pink salmon. Last week U.S. fishermen bitterly fought a major threat to their prosperity, caused...