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...among them the Japanese and the Chinese, a slant-eyed look. Evolutionary hypothesis has traced this feature to its probable source. The predominant theory is that it developed from a mutation-a random change in the elaborate chemistry of human chromosomes, which govern man's biological evolution. For arctic and desert-dwelling people, subjected to blinding blizzards of snow or sand, the eye fold had definite survival value: it increased the eyes' protection against such hazards. Thus the trait endured...
...captain's son, aground in a teaching job at Worcester Academy in 1908, when Robert E. Peary asked if he would like to join an Arctic expedition. Donald MacMillan not only went north that time-on the first successful journey to the Pole-but returned to the Arctic 35 times as leader of his own expeditions, mostly at the helm of his 80-ft. schooner Bowdoin, before he and his boat retired together in 1959. Author of several books, including the first Eskimo-English dictionary, MacMillan was a botanist and zoologist as well as the last of the dogsled...
...troops as with the Vietnamese urchins he daily fed candy, Walt was known to enlisted men as "our squad leader in the sky" because of his tireless helicopter visits to combat areas. His blue eyes often misted over the sight of wounded Marines; yet they could freeze like an arctic night at the sight of an officer derelict in duty. A general and more than one full colonel were booted out of Viet Nam under the assault of Walt's sharp temper. Yet to those who did their job, he was unfailingly considerate...
...aberrant behavior of two jet streams. The polar jet stream, for reasons that the weathermen are still unable to fathom, was detoured from its customary west-to-east path across the U.S. and whooshed over Alaska and the Canadian Northwest, driving masses of refrigerated air down from the Arctic and over the East Coast. The jet stream's unusual northerly course also helped suck the tornado belt up from its more normal Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri route, causing a disastrous twister in Chicago's suburbs. Meanwhile, the southern jet stream, after an exceptionally cold, wet run over California, dried...
Canada's Expo 67 may be the foremost fair of the year, but it is not the northernmost. Some 100 miles below the Arctic Circle, along a swift-flowing river where the cannonade of breaking ice lately echoed, Alaska last week opened its own centennial exposition and applied to it what sounded like a highway designation: "A-67." As Republican Governor Walter Hickel inaugurated the frosty fiesta on a 42-acre site in Fairbanks (pop. 19,000), the nation's 49th and biggest state was already well into a yearlong shivaree commemorating the 1867 purchase from Russia...