Word: glaciers
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During the last glacier age 10,000 to 25,000 years ago, sluggish rivers of Arctic ice created a temporary land crossing between Siberia and Alaska at the Bering Strait. Anthropologists have long agreed that this intercontinental bridge-which vanished when the glaciers melted-was crossed by the earliest known North American settlers, who moved far down the continent in search of game (stone spearheads 100 centuries old were unearthed in Folsom, N. Mex., in 1926). Last week, to the existing evidence of the ice-age migration from Asia, a Columbia University anthropologist added an important new find: the oldest...
...Eyes. The Soviet system has minimized personal publicity in the space field, but last week every segment of the state united to make Gagarin's achievement a personal triumph-ironically surrounding it with bourgeois trappings. Petitions were drawn up to rename a Moscow square after the cosmonaut. A glacier was given his name. An already prepared issue of a commemorative stamp began to roll off the presses. Reporters worked overtime to introduce him to his countrymen. One ebullient newsman described him as having "a kind Russian face, with eyes well separated." Another, who interviewed Gagarin soon after landing, seemed...
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Father Bernard Hubbard, the "glacier priest," travels 2,000 miles to live among the Eskimos on King Island...
...with temperatures down to 12° below zero, Hiebeler dozed with his feet dangling in space. As daylight came, skiers gathered far down below to stare through telescopes at the four specks crawling upwards on der Eiger. With surprising ease, the four surmounted "the spider," a notorious, four-pronged glacier that caused the death of Italy's Stefano Longhi...
Without the Yachts. Another surface expedition will push toward the Pole from Skelton Glacier, about 60 miles from McMurdo Sound. The latest U.S. surface vehicles, says Admiral Tyree, do not rival the luxurious ice-yachts that the Russians drove to the Pole last season, but they can be carried in airplanes and therefore can start explorations from any smooth stretch of ice. Another major U.S. effort will be an attempt by the icebreakers Glacier and Staten Island to smash their way to the coast of the Amundsen Sea. Because of dense pack ice, no ship has ever crossed this...