Word: icecaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movies shown to President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev the night of their arrival at Camp David have been identified. Pravda reports that Mr. K requested, and was shown, a film of the Nautilus' voyage under the polar icecap. The President requested, and was shown, a western called "Warlock." One of those present told the Times that the movies was "very long, very bloody, very dull." This reporter saw "Warlock," and concurs. (New York Times, 10/19/59...
...making it an impossible place to live, rather than almost impossible the way it is now." The ocean will also grow warmer, and will be forced to release dissolved carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. This will increase the greenhouse effect. At some point in this chain reaction, the Antarctic icecap will melt, adding enough water to the ocean to drown nearly all of the earth's great cities...
...plussing things." This year's plusses: a $1,500,000 miniature Matterhorn, 146½ ft. tall, complete with bobsleds and "glacier grottoes"; eight "authentic, air-conditioned submarines" (cost: $65,000 each) to carry passengers past the lost continent of Atlantis; a graveyard of sunken ships; a miniature polar icecap; the first operable monorail system in the U.S., built at a cost of $1,300,000. The investment seems well worthwhile: in fiscal 1959, Disneyland expects some 4,600,000 customers...
Died. Sir Hubert Wilkins, 70, Australian flying explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic, adviser to the U.S. military on cold weather survival, who was knighted by George V for his 1928 flight of 2,200 miles across the Arctic icecap, three years later navigated a submarine named the Nautilus beneath the icecap in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole under water; in Framingham, Mass. Wilkins learned his first lessons in cryogeography on an Arctic expedition with Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who taught him "to work like a dog and then eat the dog." Sir Hubert's 1928 flight from...
With no guiding stars or radio beams to give her position, how did the U.S.S. Nautilus navigate under the Arctic icecap? The secret is inertial navigation-a new means of finding latitude and longitude wholly without external reference points. Last week it was also used in the Arctic by the U.S.S. Skate, will go in even more sophisticated form into all the Navy's nuclear submarines, some of them designed to creep deep in enemy underwaters with the Polaris missile...