Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Dempsey, and the moving spirit behind a boxing managers' guild, whose "good will" Gibson claimed to have purchased at a cost of $130,000. Kearns's chief contribution: a bland assertion that as a young boxer he himself was managed by Wyatt Earp and knocked around Alaska with Author Jack London...
...been transforming 250,000 gallons a day of unpotable water into good water for the town of Oxnard. Calif, at a cost of 20? per thousand gallons-half the amount that most U.S. cities pay for their water. About 50 more company plants are in operation or projected from Alaska to the Persian Gulf...
...little incentive for Democrats in Republican Vermont or Republicans in Democratic Georgia to go to the polls. Since a state gets as many electors as it has Senators plus Congressmen, the smaller states are favored at the expense of the larger. New York, with 74 times more people than Alaska, has only 15 times more electoral votes. Moreover, the electoral power is the same whether the vote is light or heavy; in 1960 the eleven states of the old Confederacy, where few Negroes are enfranchised, cast only 14% of the popular vote but 24% of the electoral vote. Furthermore...
...North to Alaska (20th Century-Fox), a sort of northwestern for intellectuals, resets the Tristram legend as a Klondike comedy. Steady now. The Tristram is John Wayne. Bound home to Nome with a load of mine machinery, Sourdough Wayne picks up a package (Capucine) for his prospector pal (Stewart Granger). Though sorely tempted, the big dope delivers the package still wrapped. Can't he see that the girl is madly in love with him? Probably not: Actress Capucine has only one expression at her command, a look of tender gastritis. When Wayne and friend get back to the mine...
...Alaska...