Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before Canada's Prime Minister found a symbol of the nation's undeveloped wealth and might in the frozen north, mineral hunters and military men sought ways to pry open the Arctic kingdom's icebound riches. Last week from Ottawa came signs that the golden key has at last been found. It is nuclear power...
...diesel-engined vessel, probably cost around $40 million, three times more than Canada's diesel-powered icebreaker Labrador. To build the new ship, Canada will need help from the U.S., but since a Canadian icebreaker would be a major addition to joint U.S.-Canadian forces in the Arctic, Canadian planners expect Washington to give all technical assistance-and a hearty Godspeed. Most likely builder of the propulsion reactor: Hamilton's Canadian Westinghouse Co., Ltd., whose U.S. parent company built the Nautilus' reactor...
...pilot, once (in his mid-20s the youngest general in Russia's armed forces, younger son of Joseph Stalin? He was last seen publicly at his father's funeral in 1953, and a report later that year said he was in a "correction camp" in the Russian Arctic. Other hearsays turned up as time passed: Vasily Stalin was dead in a central Asiatic slave labor camp, alive in a Moscow prison, mentally sick in a sanitarium. "There is no mystery," said Newsman Alexander Kislov at the U.N., at last getting down to Tass facts, "Vasily Stalin went...
Life among the Swedish Lapps who roam the tundras above the Arctic Circle was a dolorous affair a century ago. As a result, the Lapps drowned their sorrows in barrels of aquavit. Then into the Laplanders' midst came Lars Levi Laestadius, famed botanist and Lutheran minister, with a message of hellfire and brimstone of such urgency that it sobered up Laplanders by the hundreds, set off a revivalist movement that is still a major force for morality and sobriety...
Last week in one of Preacher Laestadius' old strongholds, the community of Jukkasjarvi far above the Arctic Circle, Laplanders gathered to celebrate the 350th anniversary of their 17th century wooden church. The main event was the unveiling of a new altarpiece, commissioned six years ago by the local mining company and carved by 64-year-old Bror Hjorth (pronounced yoort), Sweden's foremost and most controversial sculptor...