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...writers was exempted from Pravda's tirade. They were the authors who served Khrushchev's destalinization campaign. All the rage in Moscow last week was an autobiographical short novel by a previously unknown writer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsin, 44, a provincial teacher who spent eight years in an Arctic slave labor camp after...
...swans, headed south from the Arctic to Chesapeake Bay wintering grounds, apparently struck the stabilizer of the United Viscount "like soft cannonballs," said a CAB crash investigator. Weakened by the impact, the tail shuddered and tore away, and the plane fell out of control...
...this. They believe that there is still something like collective leadership in Russia, hence that Khrushchev may have been egged on by militarists-or for that matter, urged to be careful by the cautious. Certainly the man who has exploded a 50-megaton bomb in a test over the Arctic, might, by ordinary standards, be considered a hard-liner himself. On balance, there is reason to assume that Khrushchev was behind the Cuban project from start to finish...
Died. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 82, pioneer Arctic explorer whose painstaking, dogsled investigations of Eskimo life earned him a scholar's reputation as an author (My Life with the Eskimos), anthropologist, and all-round authority on polar life; of a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. Manitoba-born Stefansson spent ten winters and 13 summers from 1904 to 1919 living like an Eskimo while exploring uncharted polar ice fields. In 1911 the wiry explorer made his most important find: a tribe of blonde-haired Eskimos living on Victoria Island, presumably descendants of the Vikings. A writer, lecturer, and curator...
...Soviets announced in July that they would open a new round of nuclear tests on Aug. 5 in the Arctic testing ground of Novaya Zemlya. Before that, the last reported Russian blast took place in November 1961. It was with more than passing curiosity, therefore, that Western correspondents in Moscow last week came upon a photograph that appeared in the military newspaper Red Star on Aug. 3-two days before the new series began. It showed Russian tanks lumbering across a rolling landscape; there in the background was the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. The caption said the picture...