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...week Puleston laid aside his brushes and took up binoculars to join in the annual splurge of Christmas bird counting reported in SPORT. He was one of a Viking-blooded group which chartered a fishing boat to cruise the Atlantic off Long Island and New Jersey, prepared to brave arctic weather in return for arctic rarities. Actually he ran into bluebird weather and logged a disappointing twelve species, including nothing more noteworthy than 95 gannets. He did better on another count near his home in Suffolk County. That party tallied 89 species, including two stragglers from the far north...
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic Consultant, and Alexander Laing Education Service Director, Library, both of Dartmouth, and Gwenne H. Daggert, Professor of Humanities at the University of New Hampshire were also charged with "records of affiliation" with Communist groups...
Jointly, Canada and the U.S. decided this fall to go ahead with a Distant Early Warning ("Dew") radar line along the continent's Arctic edge, some 1,800 miles north of Chicago, far enough away to give the U.S. three hours' warning. But the mid-Canada line will not be ready for months; the Dew line will not be ready for years...
...Generally, the defensive system is too thin. Only the Northwest and Northeast are defended in depth (fighter bases covering New York extend north to Labrador). Elsewhere, the jets might scarcely have time to make their pass before the attack reaches target areas. Eventually, as the arctic radar net is spun, other bases may be built in the Far North so that attackers would have a longer, more lethal gauntlet to run on their...
Thunder & Lightning. New dangers are shaping up. Soon Soviet submarines, submerged far offshore, will be able to launch guided missiles against the U.S. In a few years Soviet missiles may be capable of destroying New York 30 minutes after taking off from arctic Siberia (already dotted with missile launching sites). But danger is no cause for despair. Top U.S. strategists believe that the Soviet Union may never make a successful attack-or any kind of an attack-so long as the U.S. keeps up its guard and, above all, its ability to strike back. A strong, alert air defense...