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Socked In. The Nixon motorcade sped nine miles down Glacier Highway along the Gastineau Channel to downtown Juneau. There, in a Front Street theater around the corner from the Red Dog Saloon, Nixon was greeted by about 1,000 Alaskans (Juneau's pop. 7,000). Missing were several of the top Alaska Republican candidates, including former Governor Mike Stepovich, now running for the Senate, and the only Republican given a real chance in the 49th state this year. Stepovich and his running mates had been socked in at Sitka and Anchorage by the foul weather...
...besides Ohio: California, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Kansas. They have produced floods of new registrations; most of it is probably Democratic; in California, only one of each four of 457,000 new voters registered Republican. But angry questions at political rallies, letters to editors, earnest debate at many a saloon and street corner indicate that even union rank-and-filers-not to mention farmers and white-collar workers-are seriously disturbed over Big Labor's evident excesses...
...Underground Railway, and once a sizable faculty mob swarmed ten miles to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...
...started out, only 100,000 reached Dawson. Only 4.000 became wealthy. But while the rush was on, life in the Far North was fabulous. Miners thought nothing of $10.000 barroom sprees. One man collected the sawdust from a saloon floor and panned $278 from it in two hours. Dance-hall girls charged the miners $1 for one minute of dancing. and two miners actually had valets in their log huts. Fine dog teams, says Author Berton, were the Cadillacs of the time. "Nigger Jim" had one that was worth $2,500, and his sled had a built-in bar from...
Jackie Gleason and Betsy Palmer bring back The Time of Your Life, William Saroyan's wonderfully wacky glimpse of life and love in a San Francisco Embarcadero saloon...