Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip, which carried the group within 150 miles of the Arctic Circle claimed the life of 36-year-old Arthur Moffat, adventurer and lecturer. He died of shock and exposure after being hurled into the icy waters of the Dubawnt River, as the party neared the end of an 87-day expedition...
...biggest (circ. 5,650,000), picture magazine in the world, LIFE uses only one in 50 of the half-million pictures its editors look at every year. For the one in 50, LIFE photographers often go to extraordinary lengths. Samples: ¶ On the frozen fastness of the Canadian arctic, LIFE Photographer Fritz Goro and Reporter James Goode worked for seven weeks in silent isolation, photographing a corner of the world few men had ever seen before, where the weather extremes far surpass the farthest reaches of the arctic. Their radio could receive messages but could not send. Movement...
...said Professor H. V. Neher of Caltech, "have for years been regarded as a means of justifying travel to remote areas of the world." Dr. Neher's latest ray-hunting junket was to one of the world's least seductive places, the North Magnetic Pole in barren arctic Canada. Last week he told a Pasadena meeting of the American Physical Society about the results of the trip...
...Reykjavik to play for Icelanders? Stern had just returned from a long tour, and did not like the idea at all, but he listened to the reasons. Then he picked up his Guarnerius and boarded a military plane for a flight to the big island just below the Arctic Circle...
...wanted to become a Catholic. After Leoni baptized him, the man turned out to be an informer. Jesuit Leoni was put on trial for carrying on religious propaganda and for other crimes-unspecified. Sentence: 25 years of forced labor at Vorkuta, the notorious slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle. Recalls Leoni: "At Vorkuta, it is winter twelve months of the year and summer the rest of the time. That I spent over seven years at Vorkuta without dying or going crazy was due to the fact that the Lord never let me lack a little bread...