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Thus last week the U.S. picked up a new frontier state more than twice the size of Texas, a vast treasure chest of iced-in natural resources, a strategic base with frontiers on the Bering Strait, three miles from Asia. The U.S. also picked up in Alaska its first noncontiguous...
In January and again in June, the young officer slated by the Navy to do the job flew to Washington to brief President Eisenhower on the possibilities. Nautilus' commanding officer: Commander William R. Anderson, 37, Tennessee-born Annapolis standout (class of '42), submariner veteran of Tarpon, Narwhal, Trutta...
Swim By Instrument. In the narrow Bering Straits between Alaska and Soviet Siberia, Nautilus kept well within U.S. waters, popped up its radar antenna only once for about 30 seconds to take a radar fix. Did the Russians detect them? Anderson thought not. Detouring along Alaska's northern coast...
A long stretch of coast north of Bering Strait has no serviceable natural harbor, and the country behind it is believed to be rich in minerals, including vast deposits of high-grade coking coal. There may be important fisheries too, but few fishermen like to work off the dangerous, shelterless...
School was out, and that meant that once again Eskimo and Indian children in the Alaska Native Service boarding school in the Panhandle were flown home to their villages in Anaktuvuk Pass in the Brooks Range, and to Chukwuktoligamut near the Bering Sea. In the heartland city of Fairbanks (pop...