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...Arctic Circle, whose mysteries are as dark as those faced by Columbus, Magellan, and De Soto. There, 20 Air Forcemen and scientists participating in the International Geophysical Year took over a simple camp: 20 Quonset huts, mess hall, science laboratory, 5,000-ft. runway and an electric homing beacon for supply planes. And there they resolutely logged their fresh jigsaw pieces of knowledge about water masses, current patterns, ice drift, season changes and marine life...
...Forty percent of floe to east and west has separated. Unable to reach runway for inspection. Overcast, dark, light snow. Crack threatens to separate homer [beacon] from camp . . . Two cracks separating northern 40% of runway . . . Recommend imminent abandoning...
Negotiations were begun by the former owners of the house, Cutler said, commenting that "It is a little outside the area the University had expected to buy in." The building is located on Kirkland St., between New Lecture Hall and Beacon St. and the University-owned Holden Green apartments...
...nostalgia for the London of old, plus a prophetic desire for the bigger and better. It demanded houses which were to be passing fayre, in the language of the time, houses which were to represent social status. And so, when the satanic redmen had at last been driven from Beacon Hill, and the kinddom of God more firmly established, the seeds of a Londonesque Boston began to sprout forth...
Massachusetts elections have never had the notoriety of those in Long's Louisiana, or the predictability of Vermont's. Traditionally, the Republicans pit a Puritan Beacon Hiller against a Democrat recently arisen from Boston's South End. This year the situation has changed: for one of the two major state posts, the Democrats have nominated a fair-haired boy from the upper classes, and the Republicans have chosen two relatively unknown political hacks in their nearly hopeless campaign effort. All four candidates are united in one respect: they are mediocre...