Word: ketchikan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven years, Patty has nearly tripled enrollment, doubled the faculty, added $7,000,000 worth of new buildings. More important, the university has really begun serving Alaska. It rolls out useful pamphlets, from "How to Cook Moosemeat" to "Hints for Wilderness Wives." Its four community colleges (Anchorage, Juneau, Ketchikan, Palmer) teach everything from aircraft maintenance to Tlingit Indian culture. To help exploit Alaska's rich resources, it rummages heaven and earth. The topflight Geophysical Institute has probably done more aurora borealis research than any other group in the world. The mining school, with its own mine under the campus...
...This," quipped the Ketchikan Republican Club last week, "is the legislature of bingo, booze and boudoirs...
Without a note or chart or map, Kennedy stood with his back to a roaring fire and proceeded to analyze the U.S. political situation from top to bottom, from Kennebunkport to Ketchikan. His facts were encyclopedic: he knew the people, the problems-and had ideas about what he hoped...
...Humphrey pace would have put a less eupeptic man in the hospital. In the previous four days he had flown from Washington to New York to Ketchikan, Alaska, and back to Seattle, Chicago, and then trained into Milwaukee. At every stop there were speeches, dinners, press conferences, strategy meetings. He was almost always in motion (in Ketchikan, it included dancing with the local ladies). In the four days sleep was something to be snatched on planes and trains, fatigue was countered with vitamin pills and the sheer momentum of Hubert Humphrey's astonishing vitality. At times the strain showed...
When he casts aside his senatorial toga and puts on his campaign hat, though, Candidate Humphrey forgets about the small adjustments, lets fly with his old fervor. In Ketchikan last fortnight, he found such an occasion. "Fortunately we bought Alaska from the Russians." he cried. "We all know what Russia would be doing now if she owned it. She would be developing the vast potential of the Yukon. Unfortunately, the Administration looks on the Yukon as just another stream. This country needs to get a vision of what America needs...