Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy campaign would begin earlier than most (around Sept. 1), in Hawaii and Alaska. He had chosen the two newest states for his kickoff, explained Jack Kennedy with unabashed corniness, because "they are, in a sense, symbols of the New Frontier." On Labor Day, Jack would make the traditional stem-winding speech before the big annual A.F.L.-C.LO. rally in Detroit's Cadillac Square, and after that he would take to the road in earnest, in tours of seven or eight days each, with no more than a day or two off between trips...
Clouds also show by their patterns and shapes what motions of atmosphere are stirring up the weather. Tiros I took pictures of spiraling cloud systems reaching from Alaska to Southern California. Over Argentina, it showed clouds that traced the location of the high-altitude jet stream of the Southern Hemisphere. Meteorologists were surprised to learn from Tiros I that great, swirling cyclonic systems thousands of miles apart are sometimes connected by filaments of cloud...
...week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ' times zero equals zero." Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the sentence "true" by filling in the blank. As 40 schoolteachers from as far away as Florida and Alaska looked on, the students excitedly gave Mathematician Max Beber-man their answer: the sentence is already true because anything times zero equals zero. What the teachers saw were ninth-graders discovering a math principle entirely by themselves. This approach is so important to Beberman that he may not even tell...
...viewer who does not recognize that the sennets and flourishes here mean Montague and Capulet is a dull fellow indeed. Sure enough, while Burton becomes a millionaire cannery owner and his blood enemy Ryan is transformed into a member of the Alaska legislature who crusades for statehood, their children grow up, marry and die violent but poetic deaths during a dogsled race to the obstetrics ward. However, an infant daughter survives the star-crossed union, and in practically no time at all (as Hollywood time flies) she is a grown-up tomato with troubles...
Actor Ryan's plane has crashed on a glacier. Will Actor Burton rescue his enemy before Warner Bros, runs out of celluloid? A more chilling question, for everyone except possibly the inhabitants of Rhode Island: After Texas (Giant) and Alaska, where will Edna Ferber strike next...