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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...
...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...