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This kind of Eskimo know-how contributed to Father Buliard's success as a missionary. One accomplishment: the establishment of the northernmost Catholic mission in the world, for which Pope Pius XI himself sent a chalice...
...their islands (the Siberian port lies 680 airline miles northwest of Tokyo). Since World War II's end, another Russian dagger has been poised, even closer to Japan: the island of Sakhalin (600 miles long, 75 miles wide), separated by only 26 miles of sea from the northernmost main Japanese island, Hokkaido. The lower half of Sakhalin once belonged to Japan; it was turned over to the Russians by one ot Yalta's secret deals...
...families of soldiers were horrified by reports that some units were still fighting and shivering in summer clothes. A few angry Congressmen threatened to demand an investigation. Needled by the uproar, the Pentagon cabled General MacArthur for information. The general answered that all troops fighting in the northernmost (and coldest) areas were winterized; that although some pilfering of winter clothing (by Koreans from Army warehouses) had occurred, the losses had not affected frontline supply...
Although she was but 45 years old, Nukashook had about reached the end of her days. In the tiny village of Eelounaling on Boothia Peninsula, one of Canada's northernmost Eskimo settlements, children regarded her as a cross and ugly old hag. The "spitting sickness" (tuberculosis) had long plagued her and her teeth were gone. One day last summer, while she lay coughing in her tepee, Nukashook called to Eeriykoot, her 21-year-old son. "I am suffering too much," she said. "Put up the rope so I may kill myself...
Subscriber Ulf Hauan of Hammerfest, Norway, having read in our Feb. 28 issue that some residents of Punta Arenas, Chile, were probably TIME'S southernmost readers, wondered whether he was the northernmost reader. He is a leading contestant for this arctic title, Hammerfest being Europe's northernmost town...