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...Catholic schoolboy in Burgundy, Roger Buliard dreamed of an adventurous life in the service of Christ. The dream became a dedication. Roger Buliard entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, studied seven years for the priesthood, and at last got a mission station at Coppermine, an Eskimo settlement within the Arctic Circle in the Canadian northwest. For 15 years he roamed the Arctic, forming small congregations, studying Eskimo life and manners, gradually falling in love with the place. Inuk (Eskimo for "I am the man") is the record of his Arctic life, a superb account that blends the impersonal acuteness...
...yourself), and how to alleviate snow blindness by a few searing drops of kerosene in the eyes. He accustomed himself to the Eskimo menu, even to such delicacies as owl meat, scorpionfish liver, frozen raw fish, warm blood, seal guts braided with blubber. Like any true man of the Arctic, he became devoted to his Huskies, in whom he found a "sympathy and tenderness that many humans might envy." And he learned not to underestimate his native competitors, the shamans or medicine men. It was not inconceivable, he felt, that they might perform "preternatural feats with the help of evil...
...post time, the co-favorites (at 8-1) were Irish Jumper Shagreen and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Arctic Gold, his fifth Grand National entry. But at the fifth jump (a 5-ft. fence) Shagreen tumbled. Arctic Gold, who took the lead at the sixth-treacherous Becher's Brook-came a cropper two jumps later...
...bomber approaches the target, it climbs to seven miles and every crew member dons arctic clothing and oxygen masks against the thin, cold air. Below, a radar unit keeps an eye on the plane's approach, checks the accuracy of its simulated bomb drop. Finally, while Detroit slumbers, unaware that it has been "demolished," the crew members relax from a job which-to them-is already routine. Audiences are more likely to find the trip fascinating, reassuring and, in all its implications, more than a little frightening...
...Force is now using their discovery in a practical way. Flying over the ice on the Arctic Ocean, an airplane first drops a geophone fitted with radio apparatus to report what it hears. Then the airplane drops a small bomb, which explodes above the ice. By measuring the frequency of the ice waves picked up by the geophone, the airplanes's crew can tell how thick the ice is. This technique, the Air Force hopes, will help it find stretches of ice that are strong enough for radar or weather stations...