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...prehistoric monster tangled up in a Coney Island roller coaster. But the picture is a flattie, and unfortunately the writing and direction are as flat as the photography. The beast is a 40-ft.-high "rhedosaurus," which gets to Coney Island after being dislodged by an Arctic atom-bomb test from a 100 million-year hibernation. With the help of a handsome scientist (Paul Christian) and a pretty paleontologist (Paula Raymond), the Mesozoic monster is finally killed off. The picture has a few scary moments when the special-effects men, unhampered by antediluvian human dramatics, let the rhedosaurus run loose...
...also provides that 1) Parliament will consist of one House, to be named the Folketing (People's Assembly), instead of two; 2) the Folketing will have the right to surrender part of its authority to international bodies, e.g., NATO, the U.N.; 3) Greenland, island key to the Arctic cold war, will emerge from colonial status to full partnership in the Danish Commonwealth...
Australian-born Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, 64, brown-bearded veteran of ten Arctic and Antarctic expeditions and a submarine trip that took him within 400 miles of the North Pole, was appointed a geographer in the Research and Development Division of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps...
Lindsley's vast project will take 20 years or more to complete. A lacework of Yukon rivers and lakes, whose waters now flow north to the Arctic Ocean, will have to be dammed off in the north to form a new lake thousands of square miles in area and nearly 200 ft. deep. The backed-up waters, under one plan, would force the moving of the Yukon's largest town, Whitehorse (pop. 2,594), and the rerouting of the Alaska Highway and the Yukon Railway. The southern side of the manmade lake will be tapped, and its waters...
...Soviets are expanding their oil production most rapidly in the Arctic: "In the far north the Soviet air bases, the navy and the army are now independent of the rest of Russia for their oil and gasoline. Refinery equipment, which the U.S. shipped to Russia under lend-lease, is in operation . . . Production now may be as high as 3,500,000 bbls. per year. About 40% of Russia's oil comes from the Baku region in the Caucasus . . . [which, with] oil from the Ukraine and from the satellites, supplies the Red armies in the West...