Word: icecaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUTONETICS, whose 1961 sales of $410 million place it among the nation's top ten electronics companies. Its specialty: inertial-navigation systems, one of which steered the nuclear submarines Nautilus and Skate under the polar icecap...
...damp Chilean glades were greenly upholstered with ferns and mosses almost exactly like those that grow in Australasia. Even swarming insects looked the same as the insects of home. How did delicate plant and insect life ever make the difficult migration across great southern oceans or the hostile icecap of Antarctica...
Under the Ice. A long-range project to be started this season is to turn permanent icecap bases into under-ice towns. As snow accumulates, the U.S.'s present buildings sink deeper and deeper beneath the frosty surface. New buildings will be put in deep ice trenches. Observation towers and other structures that to be useful must remain above the surface will be mounted so they can be raised as the snow piles high...
...Trial Begins, by Abram Tertz. Pseudonymously signed and smuggled from Russia, this remarkable work of socialis surrealism bitterly mocks the monolithic state with its Soviet Organization Men, its Bolshy bitches and addled Utopian dreamers, suggesting among other things that under the Communist icecap, the Russian spirit still lives...
Nihilism, that familiar Doppelädnger of the Russian spirit, keeps cropping up; under the icecap of the Soviet regime, the frozen spirit still lives. In that sense, this sharp little sermon in novel form represents good news out of Russia. Unlike Doctor Zhivago, which buried the revolutionary dead with funerary narrative, this book crackles with questions addressed to the living. It puts the Grand Interrogators under total Interrogation, and makes clear that the most feared heretics against the Communist system are those who take seriously its original visionary aim of universal happiness...