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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOON TIME will be read at as remote a spot as there is in the world - the geographic South Pole. This week hundreds of recent and back copies were being loaded aboard Navy supply ships at Davisville, R.I. for Polar Expert Paul A. Siple and some 350 other scientists and military men who will spend the International Geophysical Year on Operation Deep Freeze II in the Antarctic. Navy Chaplain John E. Zoller, who collected the magazines, explained that his responsibility on the 18-month expedition will be morale, and reading material will be his best aid. "The opportunity to pick...
Smiling tentatively at first, Nina Ponomareva let her features relax in a broad grin when she realized at last that the judge's words meant she could go home. Two hours later she was aboard the Russian steamer Vyacheslav Molotov, bound for the happy land where everyone is guilty, guilty...
...obvious effort to team up with his stablemate, Career Boy, and steal France's famous Prix de 1'Arc de Tromphe horse race at Longchamps, C. V. Whitney's gallant little Fisherman sprinted away from the starting wire. Far back Career Boy, Eddie Arcaro aboard, waited for the front-runners to tire in Fisherman's wake...
...time Candidate Richard Nixon went back aboard his DC-6 after enduring the 92° heat in Phoenix, Ariz, last week, his face was flushed, his voice hoarse and his temperature up to nearly 100°. His friend and trip physician, Dr. Malcom Todd, made the diagnosis: weakened by a solid month's worry, strain and work, with only a day and a half of rest, Dick Nixon had a severe case of flu. Todd began dosing Nixon with Achromycin and Mysteclin, spraying his raw throat with cortisone and Pontocaine, urged him to slow down his 15,000-mile...
...later built fighters and mail planes, quit the Boeing Airplane Co. in 1934, returned as an unofficial adviser during World War II, when the firm built the legendary Flying Fortresses (B-178) and Superforts (B-293), later saw Boeing develop the B-52 jet bomber; of a heart attack aboard his yacht; in Puget Sound...