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...future attack by manned bombers on the North American continent, U.S. defenders would hope to engage the enemy with fighters and missiles far to the north of the U.S., over the Canadian Arctic. Last week, in a grave speech to the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker cleared the way for an almost total merger of Canada's air defenses with those...
...crisis of 1956 threatened much of the free world's oil reserves, prospectors have been coming to Canada in droves and pushing out to the unlikeliest corners. Last week Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton told the House of Commons about the newest "hunting ground: Canada's forbidding Arctic. So far this year, no fewer than ten companies and individuals have applied for the right to explore 60 million acres of coastal waters and arctic island territory north of the Canadian mainland...
...government will do everything it can to hurry along approval of the applications and speed the prospectors on their way. In the master plan for developing the Arctic, oil may well be a lure that brings roads and towns and facilities of every description. The government itself touched off the race for applications with recently completed geological maps showing formations of an oil-bearing type extending through the Arctic as far as Ellesmere Island, 490 miles from the North Pole. To aid future prospectors for oil as well as other minerals, the Department of Transport plans to open northern airfields...
Frosty Reception. In Anchorage, Alaska, a pair of penguins brought from the Antarctic to the Arctic Research Test Center died from exposure to the chilly northern winds...
...story gets off to a brisk start with Cliché No. 1: an Army outpost in the Arctic, in which 104 G.I.s sit stiff with boredom. Until Cliché No. 2, a gorgeous psychologist (Janet Leigh) of the WAC, recommends a policy of vicarious leave-send one man on a perfect furlough and let the others enjoy themselves thinking about it. The scheme naturally produces Cliché No. 3, a shamelessly corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis), who wins the raffle and is shipped off to spend three weeks in Cliché No. 4, Paris, with Cliché No. 5, a South...