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...senatorial business and Oregon's interests in Washington, Dick Neuberger underwent a startling experience that led him into the race for the Senate. Wrote he, recently: "My wife looked at me. She had the same resolute glint in her eye as when she swam across the inlet near Juneau while the water was full of drifting ice floes. 'You're going to run for the U.S. Senate, Richard Neuberger,' said Maurine, 'if you get only two votes -yours and mine. I've made up my mind that the man who beat the oil-foreducation...
...Explorer-Geologist Maynard Malcolm Miller, 32, who organized and led the first exploration of the inaccessible Juneau Ice Field in Alaska, has acted as consultant to the Air Force on Arctic conditions (TIME...
Cold Outside. In Juneau, Alaska, Mrs. Matthew Wilson reported that she had seen neither hide nor hair of her husband since he strolled naked from their home, saying: "Where I'm going, I won't need any clothes...
Last week Democratic Alaska veered toward the G.O.P. It reelected, for the fourth time, Democratic Delegate Bob Bartlett, a conscientious and friendly Juneau politico. But Bartlett, who had a 4-to-1 edge last time, won this year by a margin of only 4 to 3 over Republican Bob Reeve, a bluff and hearty Anchorage bush pilot who flew north in his own DC-3 to canvass the "canoe vote." The Democrats lost control of the territorial legislature: the G.O.P., which had won only 5 out of 24 seats in the 1948 election, grabbed 21 out of 24 last week...
...blare of hooting whistles, the world's largest destroyer leader slid down the ways at Camden, N.J. last week, and rode out into the Delaware. The new giant is the 5,500-ton U.S.S. Norfolk. Only slightly smaller than the Navy's Juneau class antiaircraft cruisers,* the Norfolk is 54O-ft. long, will carry a main battery of dual-purpose guns (probably five-inch), and a hull crammed with the latest antisub detectors...