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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BARROW, ALASKA, July 12--The sun hasn't set here for the past two months, but the Arctic pack ice has only recently started to break in the waters surrounding this Navy research installation. Eight-hundred miles out on the ice, in an area usually populated only by polar bears, seals, and occasional gulls, four British explorers have set up a summer camp on a floe of old ice. They have been traveling for more than four months by dog sled...
...veteran Antarctic cartographer and explorer named Wally Herbert, comprise the British Trans-Arctic Expedition, and their aim is to drive by sled from Barrow to the Pole and down to Spitzbergen Island--3,500 miles all told. Perry and the other adventurers who roamed the ice pack 60 years ago traveled a few hundred miles out on the ice, perhaps to the pole, and then turned back. But Herbert's group plans to spend a full 16 months in their crossing, with frequent scientific observations along...
Much discussion at the Expedition's base camp here has centered on "Stephansson's Theory," a rather simple assertion that the ocean beneath the pack ice contains enough animal life to support a handful of travelers indefinitely. Although this Expedition does not actually depend on game meat for survival, the number of large animals they actually sight will provide some idea of the theory's validity...
...together, the directors, may one day be hailed as true innovators in film it is they who pack a succinct story into a few seconds and in the process produce many new cinematic ideas. The work of such directors as Michael Cimino for Kodak, Howard Zieff for Benson & Hedges and Mike Elliott for Rheingold, has precipitated an interplay of ideas that flows freely between Madison Avenue and the conventional movie set. The directors dabble with Fellini-like stream-of-consciousness techniques. Hollywood copies TV's fast cuts and odd-angle perspectives. The quality of Richard Lester's movies A Hard...
...latest of a long series of warnings, the U.S. Public Health Service reported to Congress last week that a man between 25 and 35 who smokes two packs a day shortens his life by an average of eight years. It added that even a light smoker, on less than half a pack a day, may cut off four years...