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...uncharted sea. At times, their ship sliced easily through the ice, throwing up chunks the size of a bus. But often the Manhattan, which purposely plowed into massive ice floes to test its reinforced steel hull and battering bow, had to call for help from its Canadian icebreaker escort...
...Manhattan and its escort cut gingerly from Resolute into the Barrow Strait, radar operators spotted a blip on their screens. The interloper, probably a rubbernecking Soviet submarine, remained faithful through the passage. Beyond the strait, the Manhattan faced the most dangerous leg of the journey -Viscount Melville Sound and, finally, ice-choked McClure Strait. An elaborate scouting system went into action. A Canadian DC-4 survey plane, with a special ice-scanning dome, surveyed the 1,100-mile passage. Photographs were taken of the route just ahead and dropped to the Manhattan for study. Two helicopters, based on the ship...
Nibbling on Ice. At Cape Providence, the Manhattan slowed to wait for its U.S. Coast Guard escort, the Northwind, which was hobbling on five of its six engines. Within seconds, the tanker was surrounded by ice hummocks blown into its wake by high winds. Captain Steward reversed the engines, then charged the Arctic ice, which, because of its age, had lost its salt content and become rock-hard. When the 10-to 15-ft.-thick ice would not give after twelve hours, the stubby Canadian icebreaker John A. Macdonald was called to the rescue...
...TIME'S cofounder and himself a working journalist and business executive for 20 of his 44 years. Born in New York City, Hank Luce took his B.A. at Yale in 1948, following three years in the Navy, in which he served aboard a destroyer escort in the Pacific. After becoming a reporter for the Cleveland Press, he joined TIME'S Washington bureau in 1951 as a correspondent, and two years later transferred to New York as a writer in the NATIONAL AFFAIRS section, where he wrote cover stories on House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., Wisconsin...
...result, Dellinger called upon Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the Paris peace talks. Lodge gave him assurances that the peace delegation would be allowed to escort the released prisoners all the way from Hanoi...