Word: northerns
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Nice Blend. At week's end, Johnson could rate his Northern foray a success. Massachusetts, of course, is Jack Kennedy's for as long as Kennedy wants it. Key-state Pennsylvania (more than 70 votes) is for whomever Dave Lawrence and Philadelphia Boss William Green want, and they are for the time being glad-handing everybody. But if Democrats eventually called for a compromise candidate, Lyndon had proved two points: 1) he was available, and 2) in the dark and true and tender North the middle-roading Texas swallow blended with the foliage very nicely...
...force of geography, Russian test explosions are in northern latitudes. Evidence was presented that fallout from Soviet polar shots is caught in the downward drafts of arctic air and delivered to earth quite rapidly (in about a year), while debris from equatorial explosions probably stays up longer. Largely as a result of Russian polar shots last year, twice as much strontium 90 fell on the U.S. as in any previous year...
...Forty-Ninth Star, sung by Anchorage Entertainer-Bartender Freddie Beardon on the new Igloo label (made in Anchorage). And it came close to capturing the confidence and cockiness of Alaskans (We have riches untold-there's oil, fish and gold), hustling toward the greatest summer ever. Some northern high lights...
...measures. One would raise $200 million in additional tax revenue (including $60 million more in income taxes) to help balance a $2 billion biennial budget. The other, equally basic: a development program calling for $1.13 billion initially to ease southern Califor nia's water shortage by piping in northern California water...
...last of his five dispatches last week, Reporter Frankel managed to send through Moscow's censors a far soberer picture-a picture of an old Soviet propagandists' paradise, the rarely visited Jewish Autonomous Province of Birobidzhan on the northern border of Manchuria. Founded with great fanfare in 1934 as "an empty plot on which the Soviet Jews were to pioneer without getting mixed up with Zionism," Birobidzhan is today, as Frankel describes it, a sad little whistle stop on the Trans-Siberian Railroad that "jet planes, hope, energy and momentum pass...