Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nevada's Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer proposed to do away with embarrassing resolutions by the simple expedient of abolishing the resolutions committee. Sawyer's plan carried 33 to 16 on another party-line vote. Not a single Republican voted for the Sawyer plan, and only one Democrat (Alaska's William A. Egan) voted against it. "It has now been made clear," said Rockefeller, "that the Republican Party is the party of civil rights." Later on, Washington's Democratic Governor Albert Rosellini angrily accused Rocky of "using the grave issue of civil rights as ammunition for political...
...seven Harvard mountaineers who had been feared lost last week have reached the 19,000-foot mark in their attempt to scale the 19,420-foot North Peak of Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, it was reported Wednesday...
...show will start at dawn in Japan's northern island, Hokkaido, where the sun will rise with the moon already squarely in front of it. Then the tip of the moon's black, conical shadow will race northeast, crossing the Bering Sea and coming ashore in Alaska just south of the Yukon. West of Canada's Great Slave Lake, total eclipse will last for nearly...
Seven Harvard mountain climbers, who for four days had been feared lost on the treacherous northern slopes of Alaska's Mt. McKinley, were spotted Sunday night by a rescue plane and appear to be safe and continuing their climb...
...will spend their summer flying balloons in Manitoba to measure cosmic rays, and Harvard Senior David Crane has organized a mobile catering-bartending outfit staffed by fellow undergraduates. Last summer the relatively small student body of Williams (1,121) boasted a clambake caterer in Maine, a salmon fisherman in Alaska, a supermarket meatcutter in Maine, a mosquito inspector in New Jersey, a Pinkerton detective in Indiana, a labor union organizer in New York City, a toll collector in Buffalo, a CIA courier in Washington, and a groom for a string of race horses traveling between Maine and Delaware...