Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been busily examining the sun, the oceans and the polar caps, and closely inspecting the atmosphere above the earth and the mysterious, high-pressure stuff beneath the earth's surface. For an interim report on the International Geophysical Year. see SCIENCE, A Look at Man's Planet...
...Geophysical Year (July 1, 1957-Dec. 31, 1958), a joint effort by all the world's scientists to benefit all the world. Last week in Science, U.S. IGY Director Hugh Odishaw made an interim report on U.S. participation in the 67-country effort to study man's planet. Some of the high spots...
...planet is still in the grip of an Ice Age, with icecaps at both polar regions, and the IGY wants to know whether it is coming or going. In Greenland, scientists have bored 1,438 ft. into the ice. In Antarctica they are doing the same, and measuring the great icecap by seismic waves. Other scientists are observing the advance or retreat of smaller glaciers in Temperate Zone mountains. Their reports may tell what changes of climate lie in the earth's future...
...most dramatic episodes of man's exploration of his planet is shaping up this week in the hostile white heart of Antarctica. The British Commonwealth land expedition, led by 49-year-old Scientist-Explorer Vivian Ernest Fuchs, is battling toward the air-supplied U.S. base at the South Pole, and will probably get there in a few more days. Geologist Fuchs, lean veteran of 30 years of scientific exploration in Greenland, Africa and Antarctica, has announced that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross...
...ventures forth into space, General Dynamics is sure to have a planet-sized chunk of any U.S. undertaking. The company's task, as Frank Pace sees it, is not to reach too far ahead, but to plan carefully what it feels can be accomplished in the next 25 years. Its scientists have already placed on Washington desks a four-phase plan that would put manned satellites into space within five years. An improved Atlas would, by mid-1959, put a reconnaissance satellite into orbit 350 miles up to transmit televised images to earth. This would be followed...