Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news, and in an age of speed, space and science, big news is often made in the most far-flung extremes of the globe. Such news was made last week when the Air Force rescued a 20-man scientific team from a block of ice in the Arctic. Getting the news this time required extraordinary speed. From his post in Anchorage, Correspondent Bill Smith flew to Fairbanks, waited in 10° weather for the arrival of part of the I.G.Y. team. From Boston, Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens drove to Westover Air Force Base to meet returning Strategic Air Command rescue planes...
...toward negotiated disarmament got a sudden jolt. In Washington, the Atomic Energy Commission announced that the Soviet Union had set off two nuclear explosions since the start of the Geneva conference. The explosions, "both of relatively low yield," took place in southern Russia, said AEC, rather than at the Arctic site "where most of the tests in recent weeks have been held." President Eisenhower promptly issued a statement notifying the world that "this action by the Soviet Union relieves the U.S. from any obligation under its offer to suspend nuclear-weapons tests." The U.S. would continue its suspension...
...gives rise to a Western suspicion that the Russians are not so advanced in missilery as the Sputniks would indicate. Nevertheless, the U.S. radar posts have "watched" 800-mile flights from the Krasny Yar missile range and from the island of Novaya Zemlya off the northern coast in the Arctic Sea; and the Russians have shot an ICBM thousands of miles. It may be that they have not yet developed a dependable nose cone or solved the re-entry problem (the U.S. Army's Jupiter nose cone was recovered intact, earlier this year, after a 1,600-mile shoot...
Last week the Geiger counters clicked furiously again as Western spotters counted four separate Russian nuclear explosions "north of the Arctic Circle." After the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced the tests, Moscow radio said the Russians had been "forced to resume." The U.S. ban-the-bomb groups were strangely silent. Knowing that it takes 18 months for the U.S. to prepare for a full-scale test, U.S. atomic experts were certain that the Russians began planning for the new test series even before they finished the last. "More and more," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's U.N. Correspondent William...
...icebreaker will go a long way toward opening up previously inaccessible seas, will lengthen the navigation season in relatively mild northern waters by weeks -or months. Capable of crunching through 8-ft. ice floes, cruising for a solid year without refueling, it will be able to chart unexplored Arctic shore lines and ocean depths, dump supplies and heavy equipment on islands previously supplied by air alone, serve as a base for weather observations beyond present navigation limits. Said Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton last week: "No single project could do so much for the north...