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Best Friend. Congress was unimpressed. Eisenhower's Interior Secretary Douglas McKay appeared similarly uninterested. It was only after McKay's resignation in 1956 that Alaska's hopes grew again. President Eisenhower appointed Nebraska's Republican ex-Senator Fred Seaton to McKay's job, and Seaton became the best friend Alaska statehood ever had in official Washington...
...Fred Seaton flew into Alaska in 1957, looking for a new Governor. "There were 17 candidates and a dozen others being urged by individuals or groups," says he. "I saw this young lawyer in Fairbanks. Just 37 at the time. He never applied for the job. The more I saw him, the more I knew I was going to recommend him." Steering Mike Stepovich from behind were two powerful Republicans: Territorial Senator Butrovich and Fairbanks Publisher (News-Miner) Bill Snedden...
...eyed from exhaustion. General Motors' chunky Vice President Louis G. Seaton stomped out of a 14½-hour bargaining session with United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther shortly after one midnight last week and issued a grave statement. For the first time, said Seaton, the nation's biggest manufacturer and its second biggest union would have to work together without a contract because it was "impossible" to agree...
Talks broke down in a bitter mood. "The U.A.W. has made no real effort to reach a fair and sound settlement," said Seaton. "Nothing can be accomplished on the 'give-and-take' basis suggested by Mr. Reuther, which he apparently defines as 'all-give' for us and 'all-take...
...hands of Dartmouth, and then had to swim against Yale. It did better than expected in losing only 58 to 28, but for the ninth straight year, the Crimson swimmers found themselves in second place in the East. Ulen did turn out three particularly fine swimmers in Dick Seaton, John Hammond, and Jim Stanley, who will be the nucleus for next year's second place team...