Word: arctic
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...abandoned laundry in Wilmette Ill., scientists working for the U.S. Army are patiently defrosting the arctic's icies secrets. While comic-strip artists fight th next war in outer space, the men in Wilmette are learning to defend a closer battle line: the frigid wasteland that arcs across the top of the world...
Enemy bombers, winging over the pole could best be knocked down from polar bases-out of range of American cities. And U.S. planes, heading north, would welcome arctic bases. But the little that the armed services have already learned from their arctic operations has made one thing clear: conventional construction won't work. Buildings settle unevenly as they melt their way into permafrost (subsoil, some of which has been frozen solid since the ice age). Roads buckle and heave. Runways are soon pockmarked with dangerous chuckholes...
...post was an eight-man weather station on Fletcher's Island, a great mass of ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. It was discovered more than two years ago by the Alaskan Air Command, and colonized last March with assorted weathermen, scientists and communication experts. Then, moving eastward at 2½ miles a day, it floated into the jurisdiction of the Northeast Air Command...
...Blood. Historian Prawdin starts his story with Temuchin, son of a minor tribal chieftain, who bound the wandering nomads of Mongolia into a military state. As Genghis Khan, chieftain of chieftains, he eventually controlled an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Himalayas...
Manhattan's galleries were off to a flying 1953 start with some 30 new shows open last week. Gallerygoers could choose to see almost anything from mild Bermuda landscapes to bleak views of the Arctic or carvings from the Congo. But the standout exhibition was home-town work: 119 paintings by two Greenwich Village women who rank among the top U.S. artists. Both are considered abstractionists, but the term covers a lot of ground and their paintings are as different as cumulus and calculus...