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...sail in an effort to open the Northwest Passage to shipping. Manned by a 95-member party of sailors, scientists and newsmen, the 1,005-ft.-long tanker S.S. Manhattan eased out of her berth on the Delaware River near Chester, Pa., and set her course northward toward Greenland. From there the 115,000-ton ship, the most powerful in the U.S. merchant fleet, will turn westward into the passage itself, heading for Prudhoe Bay and the oilfields of Alaska's North Slope. Her mission is to test the feasibility of using supertankers to carry Alaskan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A $40 MILLION GAMBLE ON THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

South Korea: 55,000 Thailand: 47,000 Okinawa: 45,000 Eastern Pacific (afloat): 43,000 Japan: 40,000 Philippines: 30,000 Mediterranean (afloat and ashore): 28,000 Britain: 22,000 Atlantic (afloat): 20,000 Latin America (including Guantanamo Bay and Panama Canal Zone): 16,000 Canada, Greenland and Iceland: 10,000 Spain: 10,000 Turkey: 10,000 Middle East and Africa; 10,000 Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where the Men Are | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...lungs; Betty said, "Martin, I'm afraid I can't go out with you next Saturday," but Martin was busy watching the earthworm crawl into the receiver so he just said, "Oh, that's a goddamn lie." Betty gasped and said, "No, Martin, really, this friend is leaving for Greenland tomorrow and I want to spend the night with him, and I'm not lying at all," but by now Martin couldn't care less, and he said so, for the earthworm was in the receiver now and they were ready to go. But Betty was upset, and she said...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...trained him to be a radar repairman. The military being what it is, a man who had had to leave school because of language difficulty found himself teaching others how to repair radar for three years in Biloxi, Miss., followed by a year putting his training into practice in Greenland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John G.S. Flym | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

WHAT first attracted many of us to the Beatles, as public personalities rather than as musicians, was their public manner. "How did you find America?" one reporter asked them. "Turn left at Greenland," John said. "We were funny at press conferences because it was all a joke...you can't put over how you really are. Newspapers always get things wrong." Newspapers always get things wrong; a truth we all learned from Rosenthal's hilarious reporting from Columbia. So why not put them on. "What do you think of Beethoven?" "I love him," said Ringo. "Especially his poems." Fuck them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Beatles | 10/1/1968 | See Source »

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