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Ferenc Kocsis was not quite sure why he acted the way he did. His father had been grabbed by the Russians after the war and forced to work in arctic coal mines until his health broke down. "Some nights," Ferenc recalled, "he would wake us all by shouting in his sleep. 'No! No! Don't beat me!' and 'Set me free!' But my father never said anything in public. He stayed out of politics, and he bore his hatred in silence. That's the worst kind of hate, you know." Husky Ferenc had shouldered his way through the Communist bureaucracy...
...Nathan F. Twining last week made news heard all the way to Moscow. In a two-week period ending Dec. 11, said Twining, more than 1,000 Strategic Air Command B-47 jet bombers flew nonstop combat training missions averaging 8,000 miles each over North America and the arctic. "This is the first time that the nation's Strategic Air Force has tested the operational capability of its strike force in such large numbers during such a short period of time. These missions demonstrated our capability to launch a retaliatory strike force in minimum time...
...school in his native Decatur, Ill., he had hitchhiked through all the Eastern and Southern states. He thumbed his way to New York to study at the Columbia University School of Journalism, where he won a Pulitzer fellowship that gave him a year of third-class travel from the Arctic Circle to Spanish Morocco...
Typical of such frontier news sources, he discovered, is Churchill (pop. about 1,100), a fast-growing grain port and supply point for the strategically important eastern Arctic. Nearby Fort Churchill is a cold-weather proving ground for Canadian and U.S. military weapons, gear and clothing, and has been designated for next year as an observation station for the International Geophysical Year...
...thousand years ago, says Dr. Godwin, the last remnants of the Pleistocene glacier held out in the higher mountains of northern Britain. Plant remains of this date show that the country was open, arctic tundra with scattered patches of silver birch. Sea level was much lower. Peat dredged from the bottom of the North Sea shows that the southern two-thirds of its basin was filled by a chilly swamp connecting Britain with the continent, from Denmark to France...