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...Sleds v. Tractors. In December and January, the Antarctic midsummer, icebreakers plow channels through the frozen sea for Navy supply ships, and McMurdo is almost as busy as the Brooklyn Navy Yard. To support a population that reaches 3,500 at summer's height and will include 120 scientists this year, U.S. freighters and C-130 Hercules air transports shuttle in mountains of food and gear, haul back tons of scientific records and specimens to U.S. laboratories...
...plow straight through the book as I did; you'll never make it. Instead, dip in occasionally and taste it. The World of Vogue is an endless assortment of hors d'oeuvres from a platter arranged with discerning taste...
...lawyer who wants to find out what New York state courts have ruled on a particular point will no longer have to plow through shelfloads of books -he can simply ask Sperry Rand's Univac III. A Law Research Service law yer translates the inquiry into a few index words or phrases, puts the information on a punched card and feeds it into the computer. Univac III then scans reels of magnetic tape at the rate of 120,000 cases a minute, swiftly types out the titles of the applicable rulings...
...those game enough to plow through it, Notes also offers some less harrowing dividends. During the Panama campaign, the wanderer reports, "Balboa's dog received the pay of a crossbowman." A Christian named Bohemund "sent to the Greek emperor a cargo of thumbs and noses." In the case of suspected witches or sorcerers, the Devil's mark "will be found under the lip or upon the fundament, if the suspect be a man. Where women are concerned one should meticulously examine the breasts and pudenda...
...proud to claim common citizenship with the U.S. farmer. His referendum vote clearly demonstrated that the national backbone, though morally soft and pliable in most sectors, stands straight and strong in the agricultural area. We sorely need this "old frontier" independence; God forbid that the New Frontier plow it under...