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...these days, it is a backroads traveler indeed who is not able to buy a copy of TIME any place from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle. The job of getting the right number of magazines to the right place at the right time rests in the hands of a 73-man task force of newsstand representatives in the U.S. and five in Canada. They are headed by Circulation Newsstand Director J. Paul Young and his sales manager, Tony Jackson, who direct the operations from New York. For the newsstand reps, storms, wrecks, scrambled schedules and great distances...
...winter heat spell which Boston has been enjoying since Thursday will pass eastward over the ocean today. Arctic winds, following in the wake of a small storm will move eastward to cool Boston and vicinity to seasonable temperatures by tomorrow...
...North Pacific jet stream was discovered during World War II. It is formed when a cold air mass from the Arctic or Siberia meets warm air from the south, and it often moves faster than 250 m.p.h. To Pan Am, it looked like a pot of gold. Pan Am's regular route from Tokyo to Honolulu required a fuel stop at Wake Island. The dog-legged course was 4,320 miles long and took more than 17 hours. With a boost from the jet stream, Pan Am reasoned, the hop might be made nonstop, saving 450 miles and covering...
...excellent essays describe climatic reasons for the evolution of certain races and bodily characteristics in various parts of the world. In mammals, the same body temperature must be maintained in the Arctic and in the tropics. This is the reason the equatorial zones produce long fingers, dark skin, and short bodies in monkeys as well as humans, and the high latitudes account for the opposite characteristics...
Geologists have suggested that certain land mass configurations cause the glaciers. If, for an example, the Being Strait were to sink a few thousand feet, the Japanese current could pass through to melt the Arctic pack ice, and submerge the lower parts of all continents. Unfortunately for this theory, John Wolback points out that the four most recent glaciers have grown and died since the last significant distortion of the earth's crust...