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South Korea: 55,000 Thailand: 47,000 Okinawa: 45,000 Eastern Pacific (afloat): 43,000 Japan: 40,000 Philippines: 30,000 Mediterranean (afloat and ashore): 28,000 Britain: 22,000 Atlantic (afloat): 20,000 Latin America (including Guantanamo Bay and Panama Canal Zone): 16,000 Canada, Greenland and Iceland: 10,000 Spain: 10,000 Turkey: 10,000 Middle East and Africa; 10,000 Taiwan...
...lunar surface. Both are competent amateur geologists. They have had more than 120 hours of instruction from NASA geologists, and they have practiced collecting rock and soil samples in lunarlike terrain such as the Grand Canyon, California's Medicine Lake highlands, the Arizona meteorite crater, the arctic wastelands of Iceland, and Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Even their on-the-spot descriptions of the moon, to be transmitted instantaneously by radio to earth, should be of substantial value...
LETTERS FROM ICELAND, by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice. A minor masterpiece, written in 1936 when two talented, ir reverent young poets knocked about above the tree line and put time...
LETTERS FROM ICELAND, by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice. A minor masterpiece, written in 1936 when two talented, irreverent young poets knocked about above the tree line and put time...
MacNeice is dead now, and Auden, an immeasurably more talented poet, has become a happier, wiser traveler, with a preference for balmier summer spots-the island of Ischia near Naples, for instance, and the civilized hills of Austria. But in Letters from Iceland, the two precocious patriarchs of an Oxford poetic school spoke with the same youthful, irreverent voice. The book is probably the only successful verse partnership since the old English firm of Beaumont & Fletcher closed shop. It is, moreover, an object lesson for all dull dogs who could find nothing more exciting in a place like Iceland than...