Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Carolina's Uwharrie National Forest, 50 men broke camp in the swamps and headed stealthily out to intercept and disrupt regular U.S. Army troops on maneuver. In Alaska, a similar force worked with Eskimo scouts in the tundra. Another outfit was learning to handle explosives at the U.S. Navy's underwater demolition school in the Virgin Islands. In the Philippines, another detachment on maneuvers against the 2nd Airborne Battle Group of the 503rd Infantry, slipped through the jungle lines, dropped imitation poison in the drinking water, captured trucks, and otherwise raised sufficient havoc to delay the "advance...
...number was fixed by statute in 1911 but temporarily expanded to 437 (until 1963) to accommodate the new states of Hawaii and Alaska...
...Washington talks about politics, but no one in Washington can vote-unless he has an official residence elsewhere. Last year, capping a 160-year campaign for suffrage in the District of Columbia, Congress approved a proposed constitutional amendment to permit Washingtonians to vote in presidential elections. Last week Alaska, Colorado, West Virginia and Washington State all ratified the 23rd amendment, raising to 18 the number of states that have done so. If, as expected, the amendment is ratified by three-quarters of the states (or 38 in all), the District will cast three electoral votes...
...past four years, after two decades of standing still, Methodist educators have raised $80 million, put up 300 new college buildings, and opened five new campuses from North Carolina to Alaska. The empire under varying degrees of Methodist control has 205,500 students in 136 schools, including 77 colleges, 21 junior colleges, 12 seminaries and 8 universities (American, Boston, Denver, Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Southern Methodist, Syracuse...
...example in Hawaii, where it hopes soon to open an interdenominational campus as "a window on the West." Last fall alone, Methodists opened three new colleges, including two in North Carolina, which has made its racial peace and developed a strong economy. Another sign of revival this year is Alaska Methodist University (140 students)-two sleekly modern buildings nestled against the snowy Chugach Mountains on a 500-acre campus near Anchorage...