Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is the hope of Professor K. E. (for Keith Edward) Bullen of Australia's University of Sydney, who told a Toronto meeting of geophysicists last week that he has already used waves from A-and H-bomb explosions to refine his theories about the earth's deep metallic core...
...Peters plow-a 13-ton, Swiss-built monster that chews up ice and snow and blows it over its shoulder. Twenty-four insulated Jamesway Huts. 20 ft. wide and 40 ft. long, were set up in the trenches. Then the trenches were roofed with timber trusses and covered deep with snow. The 60 scientists and military men who spend the winter at Fist Clench will have a!1 reasonable comforts, and they will hardly feel it when the 100-m.p.h. gales start blowing overhead...
...icecap needs good supply routes to the outside world. Airlift is too expensive and dangerous, and weather on the icecap is often too rough for surface transport. So the engineers are putting roads under the ice too. With a Peters plow they dig a long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated sheet metal, and cover the metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles...
...likely, and in any case, the Army is not much concerned with air bases. More likely it is interested in icecap missile bases, which could be ideal places to station giant rockets in ready-to-go position. Temperature and humidity would be low and constant, deep under the ice, and this is good for delicate mechanism. Under-ice supply routes would lead invisibly in from the coast, and over the base itself would spread a smooth, white plain, showing no faintest sign of human activity...
...Joseph Lynch, director of Fordham's geophysical observatory. In Rome, Father Roberto Busa is picking the electrical brains of a battery of IBM machines to sort out the different shades of meaning that St. Thomas Aquinas intended for his 13 million written words. Some 800 Jesuits are deep in theology; about 80 are electricity and physics experts; more than 900 are physicians or have some medical training...