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...when they finally made it to Greenland, they weren't about to be stopped. The lone scoring drive began after a flubbed Dartmouth punt went out-of-bounds on Harvard...
below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet by an Army team that had drilled to a record depth...
While study of the Greenland ice sample continues, the Army drilling team has already packed up and head ed for Antarctica, where it plans to bore through the southern ice sheet to reach layers estimated to be as much as 90,000 years...
...Hard Day's Night, the Beatles were asked "How did you find America?" "Turned left at Greenland," came the reply. Most of America's new visitors have considerably more complicated responses, though often not as sophisticated a grasp of geography. Accustomed to driving from one country to another in a day, European tourists are invariably overwhelmed by the vastness of the U.S. Not long ago a Frenchman who wanted to see Yellowstone took the first plane he could get to Wyoming. It landed at Cheyenne. He got out and grabbed a taxi to go to the park, only...
...they found is Arkansas-born Brigadier General Carroll Dunn, 49, currently deputy chief of staff for the Eighth Army, who will arrive there next week. A professional engineer (University of Illinois, '38), he supervised construction of the first early-warning system in Greenland, the Titan II missile sites and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's vast new Houston headquarters. Dunn will now be McNamara's straw boss in charge of some $1 billion worth of work and 40,000 military and civilian engineers. It will be his toughest assignment...