Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pity that the nine U.S. Protestant churchmen visiting Russia [March 26] could not extend their route to the nightmarish arctic hell of Vorkuta, where so many of their colleagues are practicing high treason by holding secret religious services. Is this what Metropolitan Nikolai meant when he said, "We must now forgive and forget...
While waiting for the new hearing, Dahl went back to Canada and got a job with a Quebec bush airline, flying supplies to the Arctic radar sites. At Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island last week, the owner of a beat-up DC-3 propositioned him to ferry the plane with two passengers to the mainland. The aircraft had no operational radio equipment, but it was flyable-and bush pilots earn their extra dollars by taking risks. Dahl took the job and was only minutes away from his destination when the old bucket gave up the battle and went down...
What is a whale's spout made of? One theory: the spout is condensed vapor from the whale's moist breath. But in the tropics, where breath does not condense, the whale's spout is just as visible as in arctic cold. In Britain's Nature, Dr. F. C. Fraser and P. E. Purves tackle the old controversy again...
...Expansion and improvement of the Distant Early Warning radar net across the arctic top of North America...
Died. Josephine D. Peary. 92, widow of Admiral Robert E. (North Pole) Peary; in Portland, Me. Josephine Peary accompanied her husband on three arctic journeys, fashioned the taffeta U.S. flag that he planted in the ice at the top of the world in the first expedition to the pole in 1909, was delivered in 1893 of the famed "snow baby," the most northerly born white child on record (now Mrs. Edward Stafford of Washington...