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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covered with ice up to 14,000 ft. thick; the temperature, even in the middle of summer, can drop to -40°. Add to that the fact that no man had ever before set foot on the slopes of Vinson-and the laconic announcement from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound had to qualify as a masterpiece of understatement: "A U.S. climbing party planted the flags of twelve nations on the summit of Vinson Massif, Antarctica's highest mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Climbing: Hike in Antarctica | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...loneliest undertakings man has ever attempted. Explained Clinch before the climb: "Antarctica is not like the Himalayas, where you can always retreat to a native village if something goes wrong." From the moment that a Navy plane deposited them on a lifeless plateau 20 miles from the base of the Vinson Massif, the climbers' only lifeline to the outside world was an emergency radio hookup with McMurdo Sound, 1,300 miles away. Their sole comfort was that nobody needed to be afraid of the dark. In December, the sun shines 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Climbing: Hike in Antarctica | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...insists that this percentage can not be arrived at without future planning, but it has promised to base its figures not only on its own surveys but also on surveys made by the UPA. Some observers feel that UPA will face its most serious test when the time comes to determine the amount of low income housing in Madison Park...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: BRA and Roxbury Citizen Group Reach Urban Renewal Agreement | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

When he introduces the motion, Rawls will also try to make strong case for a discussion of the issue. He said yesterday he would base his appeal primarily on three arguments: the University's practice of computing class rankings that can be used by local draft boards to determine whether or not a student should be deferred; Harvard's association with some organizations--principally the American Council on Education--which have supported the present system; and the fact that the draft law will be up for review by Congress this spring...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Faculty Will Consider Second Draft Proposal | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...from this site, he was convinced, that all four of the mysterious Cosmos satellites had been launched. Though neither Russia nor any U.S. Government source has officially confirmed existence of the new launch site, the U.S. has known of its existence for months. Noting that the new base is astride one of the paths that U.S. missiles could follow in an attack on Russia, Aviation Week speculated last week that it might be intended primarily as a launch site for long-range Russian anti-missile missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Secret of Plesetsk | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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