Word: northernmost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...village of Kilauea. on the northernmost Hawaiian island of Kauai. the workmen from the sugar plantation began to drift in to vote about midmorning. Tony Castro, 53, a naturalized Filipino-American, had been up since dawn, when he started the day by opening the mountain gates for the morning's irrigation. As he edged through the throng toward the paint-flaked schoolhouse, he was besieged by election workers who begged a vote for their candidates. Castro shook his head wordlessly. Behind him, wearing dirt-streaked khaki pants, sweat-stained shirt and heavy shoes, Louie Pacheco, 44, operator...
...brainchild of Robert G. H. Williamson, supervising editor, and Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton, Inuktitut is almost entirely the work of an accomplished, 20-year-old Eskimo girl, Mary Panegoosho, daughter of a respected hunter from Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost point. Despite only three years of formal schooling (fifth to eighth grade in Hamilton, Ont. ), Mary is a skillful artist and writer, a competent self-taught photographer and typist who produced most of the gay line drawings that decorate the magazine, contributed most of the photographs, wrote several of the articles. The only other Inuktitut staffer is Abraham...
...unlikely gimcrack that for years has been the hottest-selling art object in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost big island, is the small plaster bust (price: $1) of a stern-faced New England schoolmaster who died in 1887. William Smith Clark stayed only eight months on Hokkaido, but the visit, in 1876, was long enough for him to be enshrined by the islanders as something between seer and saint. On leave from his job as president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride...
...reported Point Barrow's Guy Oka-kok, "the Northernmost Correspondent in the World," to his friends in Fairbanks one day last week after a treasured visit from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, 49, in 30-below weather. A strong Republican campaigner, Seaton flew into Alaska to help the G.O.P. ticket in the first post-statehood election contests. Wherever he touched down, Fred Seaton wowed; and where he did not wow, he wooed. "I want so desperately for this great state to get off to the right start," said Campaigner Seaton to as many of Alaska's nearly...
Coach Brown feels that the weather, rather than lack of men or equipment, is the prime factor operating against his crew. He pointed out that Harvard is the northernmost large rowing college, except for Dartmouth...