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During the last glacier age 10,000 to 25,000 years ago, sluggish rivers of Arctic ice created a temporary land crossing between Siberia and Alaska at the Bering Strait. Anthropologists have long agreed that this intercontinental bridge-which vanished when the glaciers melted-was crossed by the earliest known North American settlers, who moved far down the continent in search of game (stone spearheads 100 centuries old were unearthed in Folsom, N. Mex., in 1926). Last week, to the existing evidence of the ice-age migration from Asia, a Columbia University anthropologist added an important new find: the oldest...
...miles of Channel water separating it from Europe. The more Britain's relative power in world affairs ebbed, the more Britain seemed afraid that her own prideful identity might be lost in a vast new European nation. Stretching from the Atlantic to the Iron Curtain, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean littoral, a united Europe would dwarf Russia in the world's industrial hierarchy. Its literate, highly skilled peoples would outnumber those of the U.S. by many millions...
With the help of the Canadian Department of Transport, the automatic weather station will be placed this month on uninhabited Graham Island in the Canadian Arctic. It is expected to work unattended for at least two years, transmitting by radio every three hours the temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and velocity at its bleak location. Should a polar bear or an arctic fox come sniffing around, it will not be damaged by radiation. The magic fire will be underground and shielded from the world by three-quarters of a ton of lead...
...dirigibles; there were two classes, "A-Limps" and "B-Limps." A British dirigible, the R-34, made the first transatlantic flight in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh's, and between the two World Wars, the skies were filled with flying sausages. The great Graf Zeppelin cruised over the Arctic Circle and around the world, traveling more than a million miles before it was decommissioned in 1937. But after three disasters, when the U.S. Navy's dirigibles Shenandoah, Akron and Macon were wrecked with a total loss of 83 lives, the U.S. abandoned its rigid-airship program. The spectacular...
...lonely stations in the Arctic and tropics, men grow eyesore in their never-ending study of radarscopes. In the far Pacific, men from Navy patrols check in on the trust territory islands of Agrihan, Pagan, Aquijan, Sarigan. In the Mediterranean, while Russian "trawlers" trail the Sixth Fleet like beggars, sailors call at Tobruk to deliver and dedicate playground equipment for Libyan children. In a tightly guarded basement room at SAC headquarters in Omaha, hand-picked intelligence officers feed information on weather, geography, fuel and aerodynamics into beady-eyed monster machines that crank out 16 million computations, and then read...