Word: icecaps
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...Icecaps can be cozy. Last week Arctic Expert Robert Philippe, recuperating in Alexandria, Va. from an airplane crackup, told how the Army engineers make themselves comfortable in Greenland's icy interior. Instead of fighting polar blizzards on the surface of the icecap, they dodge them by burrowing into the ice, just as many Arctic animals find shelter under the snow...
...still alive with bacteria which had triumphantly survived "Martian" dryness and cold. The hardiest strains could reproduce during warm spells when the moisture content of their soil was only two-fifths of 1%. When the moisture rose above 1%, as it may during the Martian spring when the icecap melts or evaporates, the bacteria throve...
...Force is far from a phantom. It is one of the world's biggest businesses-in-being. And it is, as Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles characterized it last week, "the most powerful striking force ever assembled on earth." From its polar icecap outposts to its underground operations center in the Pentagon (where a general officer is always on duty), from the Strategic Air Command, run from Omaha by General Curtis LeMay, to the Tactical Air Command, headed by General Otto...
...same urgent priority as the ICBM. The Army intends to carry Redstone by air. Says Lieut. General James M. Gavin, head of Army Research and Development: "We want to be able to put it in cargo airplanes along with all its auxiliaries, fly it to Thailand or the Greenland icecap, and fire it a couple of hours after we land." Below the range of the Redstone, the Army is nursing a whole series of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles...
...layer's thickness is reduced to two or three meters. At present, the pack contains only 6,500 cubic miles of ice (barely enough to cover the state of Texas with a 125-ft. layer), and it is steadily shrinking. Since 1900, the thickness of the polar icecap has decreased by three feet because of higher general temperatures...