Word: juneau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the turn of the century, Alaska's seat of government has been the old gold-rush town of Juneau (pop. 16,400). Situated far down the clawlike panhandle that Alaskans call Southeastern, Juneau is so distant from Alaska's geographic or population centers that its clocks run two hours ahead of those in Anchorage, the state's major city (pop. 161,600). Surrounded by water on one side and awesome glaciers on the other, Juneau is accessible only by boat or plane; frequent rains and fog and surrounding lofty mountains often make landings a pilot...
Still, some time may pass before construction begins. Pockets of resistance remain; some residents of Juneau and Fairbanks, annoyed because the new site is close to Anchorage, are still trying to scuttle the move. No one knows yet how the future capital will be financed (estimated cost: $2.64 billion) or even what it will be called. One obvious possibility: Denali...
...MIDDLE SECTION, "What They Were Hunting For," is the least satisfying part of the book. The "hunt" is for a new state capital, to replace the inaccesible town of Juneau. The politicians and businessmen of Anchorage an Fairbanks have ruled out each other's cities, because each group wants the new honor that it, the resulting power and additional revenue additional revenue to fall on its own city. With literally no alternate choices, the politicians decide to build a new capital, grimly citing the example of Brasilia, a city built in the wilderness because "various parts of Brazil despise...
...Charlie, 40, has had many close calls in his ten years as a helicopter pilot in the Alaskan bush, but his luck ran out when a sudden gust of wind caught his chopper near Juneau, causing it to crash in flames. Nearly three-quarters of his body surface was charred, and doctors at Seattle's Harborview Hospital burn center had serious doubts that he would survive. Yet, after 30 long months of treatment, including ten operations just to reconstruct his burned hands, Charlie is back in Alaska piloting helicopters...
Most of the 300,000 Alaskans now live in the northern portion of the state, the bulk of them around the two largest cities, Anchorage and Fairbanks. What is more, Juneau remains inaccessible over land to the rest of the state-it can only be reached by plane or boat...