Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palace (Warner) is the sort of film that will be described by misogynists as a good women's picture. The tearful vapidity of Edna Ferber's outsize novel about Alaska is faithfully reflected. Troths are plighted ("Would you, could you . . ."), then blighted ("Doesn't my happiness mean anything to you?"). Love goes unrequited; yet, by adroit plotting, there is plenty of childbirth, all of it calamitous. And as the plot perambulates through three generations, the Kleenex-crumpling goes on and on for the better part of three hours...
...only 48 hours after his arrival in Manila from Alaska that President Eisenhower got the news from Japan. ¶In the span of those few hours, Ike's reception had been a blazing triumph, hailed by more than a million Filipinos, flower-laden girls, boisterous, cheering mobs, tons of gaily colored confetti-the warmest welcome he had received since his historic visit to India. Now hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in Manila's bayside Luneta park for a civic reception. Ike and President Carlos Garcia were standing on the ramp of a concrete bandstand, reviewing a military...
...amendment enfranchising residents of the District of Columbia in presidential elections. The amendment now must be approved by three-fourths (38) of the states within seven years. The prospective 23rd Amendment would give the district three votes in the Electoral College-the number held by "the least populous states" (Alaska, Vermont, Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming and Hawaii). ¶ The House, under the hard eye of swarming lobbyists, launched a 7.5%, across-the-board pay hike for 1,600,000 civil service and postal employees. Cost: $746 million. Headed for a sure veto by Ike, the election-year offering passed...
...Alaska (9): Uncommitted, with 1½ votes each for Johnson and Symington, 3 votes for Kennedy and 3 for Stevenson, but a voluntary unit rule could tip it either way at pre-convention caucus...
...Hagerty flew off to Alaska to meet Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he left behind him an exultant anti-Kishi coalition, which seemed confident that it had the government on the run. Should Eisenhower now visit Japan, cried the Socialists, it could only be for the pur pose of propping up the tottering power of Kishi, and that would represent an interference in the internal affairs of Japan...