Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME asked Jones to paint his own impression of faraway places for this week's Modern Living story on travel, and Jones responded by painting places he has never seen (his own faraway travel has been limited to Alaska as a World War II War Department artist, Labrador on a FORTUNE iron-ore assignment, and Bermuda for pleasure). Jones riffled through scads of travel photographs and "picked places that said to me, 'Go, go, I want to go there.' " For the curious, Jones's melange includes a girl from Tahiti, some cliffs near Beirut, a Greek...
...longer flying over Soviet Russia, the famed U2s go quietly about their weather research at bases reaching from Alaska to Australia. Part of their time is presumably spent collecting data from Caribbean storms...
...Seven Seas, motor caravans from Singapore to Istanbul, Tramp Trips on freighters where the passenger can rough it for no less money than the cost of a sports-shirt cruise-all have their takers. Says one weary travel agent: "I don't know whether I should be pushing Alaska or selling South Africa.'' The answer obviously is: both...
...confused with the geographical center of the U.S., long identified with tiny (pop. 600) Lebanon, Kans. Since the admission of Alaska and Hawaii to the Union, the center has moved to Butte County, S. Dak., now rests 17 miles due west of Castle Rock...
...still just enough light for the assembled cameras. Led on by loudspeaker trucks, the rioters screamed, "Down with America!" "Down with the U.N.!" and "Leave Angola to us!" They flaunted all manner of banners, which someone had conveniently supplied, demanding that the U.S. "Liberate Hungary First," "Get Out of Alaska," and "Remember Little Rock." Someone had also brought along rocks enough to smash 47 windows, ink enough to splash photogenically on the embassy's pink stucco...