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...Engineer MacDonald, a great road builder and visionary, all credit for his longtime dream of a U.S. Alaska highway. But MacDonald bitterly protested against the route picked for the Hoge highway, fought for a route nearer the coast. TIME doubts that Engineer MacDonald would belittle General Hoge's part in making the dream of an Alaska highway come true at last...
...Nearer and nearer to the fence, and still no command. But did they waver? Not in the least. "My country, right or wrong," and on they went. Latest reports indicate that the casualties were not too severe...
...Johnson's Secretary of State, William H. Seward, who forced the purchase of Alaska ("Seward's Icebox'') amid the catcalls of the isolationists of 1867. The Japanese in the Aleutians and the new global geography have made the U.S. suddenly conscious that Alaska is nearer Seattle (as a plane flies) than Seattle is near Los Angeles...
...handicaps a person in judging his distance from an object; pedestrians sometimes walk smack into a truck at the curb because they suppose that the dark mass they see is a building across the street. Dr. Miles offers a tip on how to judge distance at night: the nearer an object is, the fuzzier its outlines are; move the head from side to side-the object will seem to move rapidly if it is close by, slowly...
When the Crimson passing attack began to click in the second half, it made a runaway rout seem nearer to a real contest . . . The statistics prove that to be no illusion . . . Jackie Comeford threw ten of Harvard's 21 attempted tosses completing five for a .500 average and 73 yards gained . . . To top this he carried the ball three times for 29 more yards and a running average of 9.6 yards, to which might be added Johnson's 20-yard pass which Jack brought...