Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a producer extremely confident of his ability would dare to make a full-length documentary of Michelangelo's life and work in which not one actor appears. Robert J. Flaherty, who filmed the Arctic classic, "Nanook of the North," is evidently a man with the necessary confidence; the fact that "The Titan" is both an artistic and popular success is proof that he has not deceived himself...
Died. Anthony Fiala, 80, explorer with Teddy Roosevelt's 1914 Brazilian expedition to chart the "River of Doubt," Arctic visitor on two futile efforts to reach the North Pole (1901, 1903); in Brooklyn...
Alaska. It, he said, is "so important that it should be considered above the others." He recommended putting a radar screen around the U.S.'s highly vulnerable Arctic border with Russia. He recommended putting an infantry battalion in each of the three major Alaskan air bases. (The Joint Chiefs of Staff have long wanted more troops in Alaska but the Army and Air Force do not have enough housing for them.) "I don't cry wolf," said Ike. "I merely say that that looks like one inadequacy that we could cure with reasonable expenditure...
Expert Envoy. From Ottawa, Steinhardt traveled from one end of Canada to the other. When Canadian and U.S. troops finished Exercise Sweetbriar on the rim of the Arctic two months ago, he was on hand in bitter weather to watch the windup. He made friends officiating at such functions as the Stampede in Calgary and the dog derby in Ottawa...
...change is largely due to Editor Edward Moffat Weyer Jr., 45, Eskimo expert, Arctic explorer and onetime professional acrobat, who persuades scientists and amateurs to write at his low (now 3? a word) rates instead of sending articles to the wealthier National Geographic (TIME, May 23). Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon...