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Road Fed & Ice Free. The heartland is a 500-mile-long loop of sea, plain and jagged mountain, notable because-in Alaska's trackless central land mass-it is stitched together by year-round transportation. It begins in the southwest at the island naval base of Kodiak, encompasses the ice-free ports of Seward and Whittier, fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment of the 2,350-mile overland route from...
...were isolated in the Pacific war. You would bomb the planes and shelters and leave them all shivering in the cold with no place to march to. Don't make U.S. airplanes vulnerable by scattering them through the wilderness, they said. Let them range from bases in the heartland...
Dogpatch, the hill-bound heartland of Capp's mad empire, is a bewilderingly portable affair. Capp continually changes it to suit either his current story line or his own fancy, and it has been variously situated in a deep valley, on a desert beside a high mountain ("Onnecessary Mountain"), and on top of the same peak...
...Asian mainland's 16.3 million square miles, Communism controls about two-thirds, including Asia's heartland. Much of Asia's rimland is, however, nonCommunist, although under heavy pressure (see insert opposite...
...year-old Archbishop Joseph Grosz of Kalocsa has headed Hungary's bench of bishops. No weakling, Grosz once refused a Nazi order backed by machine guns, to leave his palace. Last June he protested to Rakosi when the Communists seized the monasteries and convents of Transdanubia, the heartland of Catholic Hungary. Rakosi smoothly replied that the state was ready to negotiate. At the time, monks and nuns were being imprisoned by the thousands and the bishops decided they had no choice but to sit down with the Communists...