Word: danish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determine if any of the plutonium-uranium 235 trigger or contaminated wreckage melted into-or even through-the 9-ft.-thick ice in the fire that followed the crash, technicians have taken ice-core samples that will be an alyzed for radioactivity in U.S. and Danish labs. If it is determined that any substantial amount of hot debris penetrated the ice and sank to the bottom of Baffin Bay, 800 ft. below, deep-diving submersibles (TIME, Jan. 19) may be called in to recover it, just as they were in the Palomares crash...
...Danish government has sent in its own team of scientists to study possible contamination of algae, fish, seals and walruses in the area, and to guard against the possibility of radioactive particles in products destined for human consumption. A Greenland hunter has been assigned to hunt for seal and walrus specimens; they will be examined for radioactivity by scientists who will later obtain more specimens for a comparison that will determine if animal life is gradually picking up radioactive contamination. Other Danish scientists will trace the possible route of contamination once the midsummer thaw starts and water from the melting...
Back in Scandinavia. Operating on a typically tight Hearst budget, Mrs. Brown has an editorial staff of 21. But they all throw themselves into her crusade. "I never have to compromise in my work," says Art Director Lene Bernbom, 24, a Danish blonde who joined the magazine in 1966. "Suddenly," she adds, "I'm like back in Scandinavia. Suddenly, I'm working...
Although he is a skipper without a ship, Danish-born Svend T. Simonsen, 59, has been taking a remarkably rewarding cruise through the $3 billion-a-year pleasure-boating business. So many ex-landlubbers are signing up for Simonsen's correspondence courses in piloting and celestial navigation that his Coast Navigation School in Santa Barbara, Calif., took in a total of $85,000 last year. His income may not qualify him as a tycoon, but the captain wins high marks for return on an original investment...
Simonsen had quite a lot more than imagination going for him. He composed his lessons out of a wealth of experience. After emigrating to the U.S. at 15, he taught himself English by laboriously translating an 800-page Danish novel with the aid of dictionaries and a thesaurus. Later, while studying civil engineering at New York University, he began sailing for recreation, and set out to teach himself seaman ship. During World War II, he was tapped to teach navigation for the Army's Transportation Corps in the U.S. and Australia. After the war, Simonsen sailed as a captain...