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Died. Fala, black Scottie, constant White-House companion of Franklin D. Roosevelt; two days short of his twelfth birthday; in Hyde Park, N. Y. In 1944, the dog became a campaign issue when Republicans charged that a destroyer had been sent to the Aleutian Islands to pick him up after a presidential trip. In the famed Teamsters' Union speech, his master replied: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks...
Waxell saw his first North Americans on an Aleutian island. The faces of some were painted blue, he says, and they were "screeching" at each other at the top of their lungs. The Russians sent men ashore to parley. The Aleuts held one of them captive, and tried with unmannerly glee to drag the Russian longboat on to the rocks by its painter. Waxell called for musketry, aimed high; the Aleuts fell flat on their faces from shock. All in all, the Russians were unimpressed with the inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, especially with their custom of plugging the nose...
Authorities believe that the forerunners of the American Indian came to this continent from Siberia by a passage across the Bering Sea. In 1948, a Peabody Museum expedition discovered that no migrations had taken place across the Aleutian Islands passageway...
Nome had company in her shivery loneliness. All the way across the Aleutian chain, most of the old World War II air bases were deserted, their torn Quonsets flapping and creaking before the storms. South toward the States, on the foggy, mountainous coastal strip-never much good for air bases-the last detachments of troops had been moved out of Ketchikan and Sitka, and out of Juneau, the capital of the territory. Under the armed forces' new strategy for defending Alaska, the U.S. was coiling its strength-its winterized jet fighters, its cadres of weather-wise pilots...
...Neiman-Marcus specialty store, has scored many a scoop in the fashion business. Last year Neiman-Marcus rang up a tidy $800,000 profit by supplying wives & daughters of well-heeled Texans with hand-knit French girdles at $79.50, Italian silk handmade nightgowns with Trapunto embroidery at $150 and Aleutian mink coats...