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The fun begins at Fairbanks, Alaska, where the 707s refuel. Waiting at the runway is an Eskimo with a Gibson refrigerator. The idea is that the not-so-dry Gibsons can snap pictures, brag back home that they sold an icebox to an Eskimo. At Tokyo, a Hong Kong tailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Goodbye Hong Kong, Hello Acapulco | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

As Large as Rhode Island. So far, the fires have devastated more than 650,000 acres of woods and tundra-an area roughly as large as Rhode Island. One fire jumped the Taylor Highway near the Canadian border, making the road impassable at times; others raged along the Alaska Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska: The Fiery Arc | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

The Bureau of Land Management used almost 2,000 men to combat the fires. Six hundred men equipped with bulldozers, helicopters and Army personnel carriers struggled to contain the West Fork holocaust by bulldozing a line in its path. Smoke jumpers, some of them imported from Montana, parachuted into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska: The Fiery Arc | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

Eastern Branch. Judge Wright and other faculty members (ten judges, two professors of law) have tried to remedy that lack at the National College of State Trial Judges on the Reno campus of the University of Nevada. The stu dent body consists of 96 recent recruits to the bench in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Back to School | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

The merger is important for United Artists too. Chairman Robert S. Benjamin and President Arthur B. Krim, who form a kind of Alphonse-and-Gaston partnership, in 15 years have sponsored one of the most remarkable comebacks in show business. Organized in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Charlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: From Food to Films | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

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