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There were, to be sure, a few oversights. Somebody forgot to put life jackets in the neatly stenciled "life jeiket" containers under each seat. Other regulations were stretched in the happy excitement. As the plane whizzed toward Greenland, some passengers were invited up to the roomy cockpit, which looked familiar except for the Cyrillic script on the dials, and allowed to take pictures (which is forbidden over Russia proper...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "The Lonely Dory-men-Portugal's Men of the Sea." A saga of the 3,250-mile journey to the Davis Straits of Greenland that Portuguese fishermen have made annually for 500 years...
...said that "my inclination, which is a visceral one, is to say categorically yes" to developing a new bomber. The fact that the Strategic Air Command has now canceled B-52 airborne alert flights-simulated runs on Communist targets, with nuclear bombs aboard-in the wake of the Greenland crash in which four hydrogen bombs were lost, could, however, bring the usefulness of a new manned bomber into question...
...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...
Slowed by extreme cold and winter storms, the recovery team can only look forward to months of uncomfortable living and working on the desolate expanse of ice. Asked by his wife when he would return from Greenland, Major General Hunziker replied: "Probably not before the roses bloom in Omaha...