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...angels pose. He pointed out that in October-six months after the Soviets had won the plaudits of the world's neutralists for piously suspending nuclear tests, and just after the U.S. announced its decision to suspend tests for one year-the Russians had carried out at their Arctic test site a series of nuclear explosions so "dirty" that they increased the concentration of radioactive strontium 90 in the stratosphere by about 50%. They were by far the dirtiest nuclear tests since the much blamed U.S. tests in the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Fallout from the Pole | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...great, fanlike sweep of DEW (Distant Early Warning) radar that stretches for 9,000 miles across land and sea to guard the Arctic approaches to North America, there is still one glaring and worrisome gap: the unscanned air corridor across Greenland. In Washington last week, U.S. Army Engineers announced awards of $27 million in contracts to fill the Greenland gap with four DEW radar bases. A Danish firm will build bases on Greenland's east and west coasts. A U.S. firm, Peter Kiewit Sons Co., will build two inland stations with a new look: the main buildings will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Filling the DEW Gap | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Four hundred men are married, 53 still bachelors (not all of the 510 answered every question); 317 have gained weight and 162 have thinning hair, but only 19 are bald. Beatniks and arctic explorers seem poorly represented; there is only one beard and one mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Class of '49 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...Perfect Furlough. A frozen Army outpost in the Arctic, with central heating by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, makes a floe of comic clich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Mar. 16, 1959 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...told, Canada will rely for antibomber defense during the next few years on U.S.-built Bomarc missiles. Canada will share the cost of launching sites with the U.S., control them jointly through the North American Air Defense Command. Later, NORAD-controlled U.S. fighters may be stationed in Canadian Arctic bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Joint Defenders | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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