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Beneath the black waters of the Aleutian Deep the earth moved. Some 15,000 feet down and 70 miles southeast of Unimak Island (see cut), nature was building a mountain which living men might never see. But the secondary results were visible enough: 1) quivering squiggles which are the seismographic record of earthquake violence; 2) a series of tsunami* ringing out from the earthquake center, carrying death & destruction to Hawaii, spreading alarm across the Pacific...
Many jittery readers, wondered whether the Bikini atomic-bomb test had been given a secret preview. Answer: a definite no. It would take many times 20,000 tons of TNT (the equivalent of the atomic bomb to be dropped at Bikini) to match the earthquake in the Aleutian Deep...
...Eggshells do not fall apart at the slightest tap of a spoon because the oval shape distributes the force of the blow around the whole egg. The Navy's Quonset huts-similarly curved-have survived winds of more than 100 m.p.h., including Williwaws in the Aleutian Islands...
...Homecoming. To emphasize this civilian-serviceman barrier of unshared experience, Author Jonas jumps intermittently from the Aleutian action to the miserable frustration of a returned sailor amid civilians who cannot understand what he has no words to tell them. In the downtown businessmen's club the sailor could only play nervously with the silverware when the man said: "Well, how are the boys going to vote?" When the girl spoke out of the darkness: "Don't I mean anything to you at all?" he could only say suddenly, "No, I guess you don't." And when they...
Thin, icy air American flyers encounter as they wing their way through the stratosphere, the moist tropical heat of South Pacific jungles, the dry, numbing cold of our Aleutian outposts are all being reproduced in the University's unique Fatigue Laboratory. Here a group of doctors and scientists study the effects such diverse weather conditions will have upon the energies of fighting men. Special diets are prepared and new insulated or even electrically heated clothing developed to protect our armies, equipping them in advance against the rigors of hitherto unknown climates...