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Icecaps can be cozy. Last week Arctic Expert Robert Philippe, recuperating in Alexandria, Va. from an airplane crackup, told how the Army engineers make themselves comfortable in Greenland's icy interior. Instead of fighting polar blizzards on the surface of the icecap, they dodge them by burrowing into the ice, just as many Arctic animals find shelter under the snow...
...personalities: Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, the German V-2 rocket, the Nürnberg trials, the love story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Don Whitehead's version of the FBI story. Globetrotter Lowell Thomas brings seven color adventure films back from New Guinea, Nepal, the Arctic, South Seas and Yucatan: and Conquest will showcase "breakthroughs" in science. After six years on TV, Lucy and Desi are taking refuge in five hour-long musical comedies, and Studio One begins its ninth year with a report on Orson Welles's 1938 Martian "invasion," with Ed Murrow narrating...
...amplifying the random electrical interference that is also picked up by the receiver. Heretofore, the usual method of improving reception has been the brute-force approach of multiplying the power of the signal. But this multiplication requires costly and cumbersome equipment, is impractical for such isolated sites as the arctic...
There are two fragments of hope. A scientist named Jorgensen believes that radioactivity may be decreasing in the icefields of the arctic, holding out a promise of human survival in the polar regions. And a radio transmitter near Seattle has been intermittently sending a meaningless jumble of signals. Commander Towers takes his submarine north to get the answers. He proves Jorgensen wrong, and finds that the Seattle transmission is caused by a freak mechanical accident. He returns to Australia and death...
Canada and the U.S. last week took two important steps to enclose their common backyard. On the Arctic Circle, the DEW line (for Distant Early Warning), a 3,000-mile electronic tripwire, was switched on; for the first time, Canada and the U.S. could feel reasonably secure against a Pearl Harbor attack from the north. At the same time, Washington and Ottawa announced that the two nations' air forces would form a joint command (ADCANUS) for continental defense. ADCANUS will be commanded by Air Force General Earle E. Partridge at the U.S. air-defense center at Colorado Springs, Colo...