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Under the plan, the Army division will have aircraft designed to move into the field with the troops: the Mohawk, a light observation plane equipped for day or night reconnaissance; the Chinook and the Iroquois, heavy-duty helicopters that can carry combat squads; and the Caribou, a 150-m.p.h. transport plane that can haul up to 32 men. The choppers will be armed with machine guns and 2.75-in. rockets; the Mohawk observation planes may carry conventional bomb racks and napalm as well...
...prospectors found nothing but Eskimo and pre-Eskimo artifacts, 2,000 to 5,000 years old. Then, just two days before a plane was due to take them home, Solecki and Colleague Bert Salwen decided to prospect a knoll that looked like just the kind of place a caribou hunter might stand, with a sweeping view of the mountain valley. They were right. Half-hidden in a litter of rocks, they found 25 "choppers"-crudely edged stones with which the first visitors from Asia skinned their catch 10,000 years...
Sculptor Stankiewicz came by his love for junk naturally. He was raised in one of Detroit's toughest districts, used a foundry dump for his playground. During a World War II hitch in the U.S. Navy, he found himself whiling away time in the Aleutians by whittling caribou horn, decided to cash in his G.I. Bill on an art education. He studied with Hans Hofmann in Manhattan, polished off in Paris with Painter Fernand Lèger and Sculptor Ossip Zadkine. Back in Manhattan he set out to shape his future by reclaiming the flotsam and jetsam...
...Moose & Caribou. When Patty first went to the new campus 90 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it hardly seemed the sort of place to accept any type of challenge. It was called the Alaska College of Agriculture and School of Mines. It had six professors, six students, one building. Moose and caribou wandered freely about; foxes raided the garbage pails; the desks were made of packing cases. But somehow, under the leadership of President Charles Bunnell, the campus grew. One reason: Ernest Patty's School of Mines...
...expedition relied on the abundant and delicious, caribou, trout, and ptarmigan, a chicken-like bird, for food...