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...beat dogsled competition, he charged double rates. In a few years, Wien acquired some of his less successful competitors, invited his brothers Fritz and Sigurd to join him in Alaska, and soon the Wien line's Ford Tri-Motors and Curtiss Robins were serving Barter Island on the Arctic Ocean and Eskimo villages along Norton Sound...
...load of snaggle-horned reindeer to groceries for Catholic missions at Eskimo villages on the Chuckchee Sea. Among their touchdown locations: Goodnews Bay, site of a platinum mine, and Katmai, where N.C.A. owns a world-famous trout camp. In 1967, Wien hauled some 5,000 passengers on its packaged Arctic tour, winding up at the line's Kotzebue Hotel location...
...introduced. Instructions on how to go skiing turn into advice on how to snag a skier. "You're standing on the left line next to a slim-hipped Nordic god. You produce a cigarette. He's got to be interested if he removes his gloves in arctic weather and delves through pockets to light you up." Even archaeological expeditions are happy hunting grounds. "One night, wild and high," reports a girl who joined a dig in Greece, "we danced Zorbalike steps to records and formed amorous twosomes that lasted until dawn...
...officially described as "negligible," was discovered on the icebound bay off northwestern Greenland last week. The U.S. airmen who detected the radioactivity reached the blackened, 500-yd.-long crash site on Eskimo dog sleds, the only means available in the swirling snow and 50-m.p.h. winds of the dark Arctic winter...
...Arctic Frost. A few months earlier Mills might have welcomed the call from Fowler. Now he received it with arctic coolness; in fact, he had not met with both Fowler and the President since August. Mills has been insisting that a tax increase has to be matched by a decrease in expenditures. The Administration resisted, fearing that a cut of the magnitude demanded by Mills would gut federal welfare programs. One list of economies that was proposed would have eliminated vaccinations for children, and another would have slashed the school lunch and milk programs-proposals the Administration well knew would...