Word: connection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most ambitious of all gubernatorial pipedreams was put forward by Walter Hickel, Alaska's first Republican Governor (its second Governor since statehood), who envisioned a new railroad that would stretch 500 miles across the state's high plateau from Fairbanks to Nome. The line would connect with the 470-mile line, known affectionately as the "Moose Gooser," currently running from Seward to Fairbanks. And, said Hickel, it would open Alaska to development just as the transcontinental railroad opened the West in 1869. Who knows? If the détente with Russia flourishes, the line-if it is built...
Joined by bone and flesh just above the buttocks, they had separate organs except for the rectum. Neither felt the other's pain, and their circulatory systems were largely separate. But a few, small arterial branches "appeared to connect," said Pathologist H. Paul Wakefield, and evidently transported the cancer. He could not be more specific, because his autopsy did not include a microscopic examination of the twins' connected tissues. They had requested that they not be separated even after death-so that they could be buried in a special coffin in the state in which they had lived...
...been an able, low-key administrator of Baltimore County. His campaign started slowly: for weeks he orated on such rarefied topics as air pollution. Now he says he's "getting a little mad." Agnew, who advocates open-housing legislation for new apartments and subdivisions, is trying to connect Mahoney with the Klan, says Maryland must choose between "the courageous flame of righteousness and the evil of a fiery cross...
Cornell's Pete Larson will probably fail to improve his national rushing mark against Yale's stubborn ground defense (56 yards per game), but Bill Abel should connect with Ron Gervase or Ed Zak for a touchdown or two. That will not be enough, however, and Yale should...
During practice that day, Hanratty had pulled a tendon in the fabulous passing arm that had spiraled the Irish to three straight victories and No. 2 ranking in the nation. With Hanratty unable to connect with Sophomore End Jim Seymour in their dazzling game of catch, the Tar Heels might just have a chance...