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...like many unsung pilots before him. As such, he was as much a part of the long thin line of U.S. defense as G.I.s on duty in Berlin, technicians manning missile-tracking stations behind him in Turkey, shivering weather watchers drifting through a winter on ice islands in the Arctic. As such, he, and they, were engaged in giving the free world the warning it must have if it is to protect itself from Russian attack, and the shield of intelligence it must have if it is to seek peace without the danger of being lured into a fatal trap...
...medium Badger bombers and 200 heavy Bisons have been training hard at airborne refueling operations, are currently rated on a par with U.S. SAC crews. Some of these planes have been seen landing on floating ice islands, which the Russians maintain as emergency landing strips in the Arctic...
...clouds than in the classroom." Last week there was no such complaint as President Patty, 65, announced his own retirement in favor of William Ransom Wood, 53, academic vice president of the University of Nevada. All things considered, the nation's northernmost campus (100 miles south of the Arctic Circle) has never been in better shape...
Toportray the modern-day missionaries who appear in the color spread, TIME scouted some 250 missionaries at work from the frozen Arctic to the steaming Amazon jungle. Twelve photographers took part in the project, all of them professional save one : Father William Leising, an Oblate priest who pilots supplies to 26 mission posts in the Canadian northland, and who took the picture of the grotto 200 miles above the Arctic Circle...
...made by the three interned Nationalist Chinese consular employees or the former Royal Albanian Army officer turned house painter. Among the Spaniards was famed peasant General Gonzales, known as "El Campesino." who. after quarreling with his Communist comrades of the Spanish Civil War was imprisoned in the notorious Vorkuta Arctic Circle prison camp, from which he later escaped. Said he angrily: "We who are here are the true friends of France. It is Khrushchev who is the enemy of France...