Word: polarizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached back for the duffel bags handed up by a friend. In them were some of his most prized possessions: dozens of tape recordings of South Pacific music, Beethoven sonatas, harp solos. The big man waved goodbye. "See you in 1958," said Paul Siple, 47, a geographer and polar explorer from Arlington, Va. Then he flew off from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound in the antarctic for a 14-month stay at the most isolated community on earth...
...specialists will dig deep into the antarctic's frozen crust and probe far into its icy, gale-lashed upper atmosphere. While they pursue their specialties, other scientists will be working at six other U.S. bases around the rim of the 5,000,000-sq.-mi. continent. Like the polar scientists of ten other nations now assaulting Antarctica, all are participants in the International Geophysical Year studies of 1957-58. The I.G.Y's objective: a free exchange of the newly gained scientific information among all the nations concerning the world they inhabit...
FIRST NORTH-POLE FLIGHTS from Europe to Asia will start in February, cut 10,300-mile Stockholm-Tokyo hop to 8,000 miles, trim flying time from about 49 hours to 31 hours. Scandinavian Airlines System, which pioneered polar route between-Copenhagen and California, will fly two Far East round trips weekly over pole, make refueling stop at Anchorage...
SOON TIME will be read at as remote a spot as there is in the world - the geographic South Pole. This week hundreds of recent and back copies were being loaded aboard Navy supply ships at Davisville, R.I. for Polar Expert Paul A. Siple and some 350 other scientists and military men who will spend the International Geophysical Year on Operation Deep Freeze II in the Antarctic. Navy Chaplain John E. Zoller, who collected the magazines, explained that his responsibility on the 18-month expedition will be morale, and reading material will be his best aid. "The opportunity to pick...
...POLAR AIR ROUTES are in prospect for T.W.A. and Pan American. With Scandinavian Airlines already making polar runs and Lufthansa and BOAC slated to start soon, CAB will probably certify two U.S. lines in late summer...