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...reported Point Barrow's Guy Oka-kok, "the Northernmost Correspondent in the World," to his friends in Fairbanks one day last week after a treasured visit from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, 49, in 30-below weather. A strong Republican campaigner, Seaton flew into Alaska to help the G.O.P. ticket in the first post-statehood election contests. Wherever he touched down, Fred Seaton wowed; and where he did not wow, he wooed. "I want so desperately for this great state to get off to the right start," said Campaigner Seaton to as many of Alaska's nearly...
...public is this public medicine that even healthy Alaskans from Barrow to Kenai tune in their radios to little else. For titillation, they say, professional entertainment hardly compares. One schoolteacher-nurse's wife, forced to listen during dinner, queasily agrees: "If you've never listened to symptoms while eating chocolate pie, you haven't lived...
...Nautilus surfaced for the first time since Pearl Harbor to get a sure fix on a DEW-line radar station, then headed down again into the fantastic beneath-the-sea new world of mountains and deeps that is the nuclear submarine's true element. Its course: along the Barrow Sea Valley, a deep underwater canyon that leads and widens out from Alaska's Point Barrow into the 12,000-ft.-deep Arctic Sea basin...
Dynamic Chemistry. The airplane, operated by scheduled airlines as well as by oldtime bush pilots and private owners, is the tie to the cities for the thousands who live in wilderness villages. Airlines touch Point Barrow in the far north on the Arctic Ocean, Kotzebue on Kotzebue Sound, Attu in the Aleutians. Bush Pilot Don Sheldon, 36, hauls Indians and Eskimos, dog teams, pregnant women, dynamite and lumber, drops his handy craft onto a slippery strip in Umiat or on crags high in the mountain ranges. He brings groceries to Schoolteacher Charlie Richmond (home town: Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), who lives...
Space Slip. In London, Frank Barrow, explaining why he could not appear in court on a parking summons, wrote the judge: "I have volunteered this week for space travel in satellite or rocket, so I cannot foresee whether I shall be available to be present in court...