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Dammed Strait. By far the most controversial atomic scheme proposed by Soviet planners is the damming of the Bering Strait, the 55-mile-wide stretch of water between Alaska and Siberia. "This would be highly beneficial for Siberia," according to Seaborg, "because the cold Arctic waters bathing the eastern coast would be replaced by warmer Pacific water. Eastern Siberia might then be opened up to agriculture." Prospects for a Bering dam are dim, however, because it would span international waters and require the approval of other nations. That approval, especially by the U.S., is unlikely; the cold water would have...
...flaccid heroics of another adventure film. The Red Tent, invite only listlessness. Based on events surrounding the crash of the Italian airship Italia in 1928, the movie spins a meandering tale of arctic survival and rescue. Peter Finch has a nice go at the part of General Umberto Nobile, the expedition commander, and Sean Connery is engaging as the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who died searching for Nobile...
...SUMMER is settling in on the North Slope, and the Arctic yellow poppy blooms in riotous abundance at Prudhoe Bay. Near a lone British Petroleum Co. rig, indifferent caribou graze. At the base camp, oil workers grow restless in the 24-hour daylight. Another idle crew waits 60 miles south, near Galbraith Lake, where $4,500,000 worth of unused Cat tractors, bulldozers, graders and pickup trucks stand in precise rows, as in a toyshop at Christmas. Hundreds of miles farther south, at the port of Valdez, workers are beginning to coat stacks of rusting pipeline-400 miles...
...Such hopes now seem to be foundering in an Arctic white-out of problems. Some 57,000 Aleuts, Indians and Eskimos, protesting that the pipeline would pass through 641 miles of federal lands claimed to be theirs, demanded compensation. This has forced the Department of Interior to delay construction until the land claims can be settled. Then there were the complaints that the pipeline would ravage Alaska's ecology. The pipeline would traverse three rugged mountain ranges, 23 rivers and three active earthquake zones. Much of the terrain is delicate permafrost, which could become a bog if its surface...
...begin with, he is the richest man in the world. He is also the handsomest. His eyes are "hypnotic whirlpools of flake gold" and his "perfect features display a power of character seldom seen." Best of all, Doc is really built. His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman." He can dodge a bullet, crawl up a wall like a human fly, stay under water for eight minutes, smash through an inch-thick steel door with one punch, and take on-oh, say-a hundred armed men at a time...