Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty continuous hours in the air, ground out in the seconds, degrees and miles of a B-36 flight, mean packing aboard survival kits for the Arctic, life rafts for the ocean, 100 Ibs. of food* to be cooked in two tiny electric ovens-and endless time for minor irritations of dreadnought flying to sap the toughest crewman. The crew's sections are pressurized like bug-bombs. To get from the nose compartment to the rear chamber a crewman has to lie full length on a little roller sled, pull himself hand over hand down an 85-ft. connecting...
...General Kepner was air commander at the Bikini atomic tests, more recently has been commander of the Air Force's proving ground at Eglin Field, Florida. In sending him to Alaska, the Defense Department was putting a veteran interceptor on top of the world, along the short Arctic air route to the U.S. from Russia...
Peter W. Rand '51 of Eliot House dropped a message-laden bottle overboard last summer while on a cruise in the Arctic Ocean, and it turned up April 22 on a Scottish beach. Rand received the message and a letter last week from the finder--John MacIntyre of South Uist, Lochboisdale, in the Outer Hebrides...
Commander MacMillan plans another trip to the Arctic this summer to collect specimens for the Peabody Museum and others. First mate Rand will make his third trip, along with Stanton A. Cook '51 and Ian M. White...
Died. Alfred Julien Lomen, 61, president of the Lomen Commercial Co. of Nome, Alaska, onetime owner with his brothers of the largest reindeer herd in the Territory, Arctic rescue expert (he was the first white man to reach the scene of the 1935 Will Rogers-Wiley Post plane crash); after long illness; in Seattle...