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...pictures are really abstractions," says Christ-Janer, 55, "that, I hope, come through with a magic that makes people see nature in them." He can brush a cool, grainy vision that recalls arctic tundra seen from 25,000 ft. up, or the scorched, forever autumnal desert of the American Southwest. Says he: "The earth, the sky and the sea are my sources of information...
Frozen Instant. To evoke Pasternak's poetic imagery, Lean led a camera unit almost to the Arctic Circle, hired Lapland nomads to portray Siberian refugees. To record the long train trip from Moscow to the Urals that is the central odyssey of the novel, Lean went into below-zero temperatures in the northern Finnish lumber town of Joensuu, photographed the "refugees" trekking across Lake Pyhaselka, over which, during the 1940 Russian invasion of Finland, the Soviets had actually laid a winter railway...
...laboratory that provided the date of 720 million years for the fossils our party found in the Canadian Arctic last summer [Nov. 12] now reports that on rechecking it has found a computational error and that the minimum age of the fossils is 445 million years. But the structural geologic relations indicate that this age is impossibly young: the fossils are almost surely preCambrian. Other tests by different methods are being undertaken. I hope they will resolve the uncertainty about the dates...
Mother Lode. Geologist McNair made his discovery last summer after sighting a distinctive rock ledge on remote Victoria Island in the Canadian arctic. Clearly visible on the surface of the Pre-Cambrian rock, which had somehow escaped the disturbances of mountain building and the pressures of overlying rock, were the fossilized tracks of burrowing, wormlike animals -an encouraging indication that more fossils might be near by. Says McNair: "I knew how gold prospectors felt when they stumbled across the mother lode." Splitting open the rock, he found the remains of 47 primitive, clamlike brachi-opods that radioisotope dating proved...
...DETECTION. ADC has developed a radar network that includes the Pinetree Line along the northern U.S. border, the Mid-Canada Line, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line at the Arctic Circle, and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) bases at Clear, Alaska; Thule, Greenland; and Fyling-dales Moor, England. Under development: over-the-horizon radar capable of detecting missiles on actual launching from Russia or China, which will give the U.S. 30 minutes of warning instead of the present...