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Although his ashes have long since been scattered over his beloved Greenland settlement of Thule, Freuchen's restless mind still seems alive. After four months on the counters, his encyclopedic Book of the Seven Seas (Julian Messner; $7.50) remains a bestseller. Probably headed for the list is Freuchen's final work. The Arctic Year, written with Ornithologist Finn Salomonsen (Putnam; $5.95). It deserves a place alongside Freuchen's earlier, bulky volumes of autobiography as a classic study of life in the North...
...Seven Seas is the product of Freuchen's long, dark winters in Greenland, when his mind sailed off with the big bergs "as they floated eternally to their doom." Wrote Freuchen: "Little by little it dawned upon me that there is a logical connection between everything that happens in that immense connected body of salty water that covers 71 percent of the surface of the earth." That logic led Explorer Freuchen to learn the lore he put into his book. He studied the science of the tides, waves and winds, learned about history's great sea battles...
...planet is still in the grip of an Ice Age, with icecaps at both polar regions, and the IGY wants to know whether it is coming or going. In Greenland, scientists have bored 1,438 ft. into the ice. In Antarctica they are doing the same, and measuring the great icecap by seismic waves. Other scientists are observing the advance or retreat of smaller glaciers in Temperate Zone mountains. Their reports may tell what changes of climate lie in the earth's future...
...Antarctica. The British Commonwealth land expedition, led by 49-year-old Scientist-Explorer Vivian Ernest Fuchs, is battling toward the air-supplied U.S. base at the South Pole, and will probably get there in a few more days. Geologist Fuchs, lean veteran of 30 years of scientific exploration in Greenland, Africa and Antarctica, has announced that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross Sea about March 9. If he crosses Antarctica from sea to sea, he will have accomplished what the great explorer Ernest Henry...
...issue was West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). For years Sukarno has been claiming as part of Indonesia the wild, raw-material-rich western portion of the world's second largest island (after Greenland). For years the Dutch have refused to hand it over. Sukarno appealed to the U.N. "If the United Nations fail us," he warned last month, "we will resort to methods which will startle the world." The U.N. refused to consider Indonesia's demand, and last week Sukarno made good his threat...