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...more immediate world importance than a strike reported last week in the Norwegian North Sea just below the Arctic. Oil exists there in quantity but under 4,800 feet of water; the technology does not now exist to get it out at acceptable cost...
...Boston to an Indian settlement 50 miles south of the Labrador border. Two months earlier, the man flying the plane had told me about towns along the north shore of the Gulf, isolated fishing villages unconnected by roads of any sort, abandoned in the wilds of the Canadian sub-Arctic. And he told me about a program that he had started in 1961 through which people spent summers in these towns, teaching vital skills that no one up there knew how to teach. Like swimming. Every year, several fishermen die when they fall overboard five feet from land...
...Ever since I was young I wanted to fly north," he said. "I can remember vividly long walks with Admiral Byrd, him telling stories about his adventures, about flying, about the Arctic...
...white side" of St. Augustine, they've begun to prepare for its arrival. Beer bottles crack and shatter on the rocks by the landing. Water-proofed families of 14 pile into the small dory-like boats that, in the fierce sub-Arctic winter, carry fishermen far out into the Gulf in search of seal...
...Roman Catholic priest from La Romaine spends a week in the tiny church which the St. Augustine Indians built for themselves under his supervision. To make up for lost time, he performs continuous masses, weddings and baptisms--all in Algonquian, the language spoken by the tribes of the sub-Arctic cultural area south and east of the Hudson Bay. Children eat potato chips and play tag in the aisle, baptismal water appears in a peanut butter jar, and everyone, scratching incessantly, squashes blackflies that gather at the window panes. At the wedding of the cheif...