Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international airlines, the biggest problem of 1957 has spawned the bitterest argument. The problem: increasing competition from foreign carriers, largely because the U.S. is letting more and more foreign lines get into choice U.S. markets. Last week, as Pan American World Airways inaugurated a long-contemplated polar route from San Francisco to Paris, the French government threatened to halt the flights unless its Air France got a similar route-and the U.S. State Department quickly said that it would consider the matter...
...three Soviet flyers in a single-engine A.N.T. 25 flew the polar route from Moscow to Vancouver, Wash., where they were received by the Army air base commandant, Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall. A month later another A.N.T. 25 repeated the crossing, landed in a field near San Jacinto, Calif...
Icecaps can be cozy. Last week Arctic Expert Robert Philippe, recuperating in Alexandria, Va. from an airplane crackup, told how the Army engineers make themselves comfortable in Greenland's icy interior. Instead of fighting polar blizzards on the surface of the icecap, they dodge them by burrowing into the ice, just as many Arctic animals find shelter under the snow...
There are two fragments of hope. A scientist named Jorgensen believes that radioactivity may be decreasing in the icefields of the arctic, holding out a promise of human survival in the polar regions. And a radio transmitter near Seattle has been intermittently sending a meaningless jumble of signals. Commander Towers takes his submarine north to get the answers. He proves Jorgensen wrong, and finds that the Seattle transmission is caused by a freak mechanical accident. He returns to Australia and death...
Into the continuing Senate debate on civil rights came a powerful, persuasive, familiar third force. For a fortnight the session's bitterest battle had raged between polar opposites-Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell and his determined Southerners, Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland and his coalition of Republicans and Democratic liberals. Last week, with the pressures carefully remeasured, the crosscurrents analyzed, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson calculated that it was time to come out of the wings and exercise his superb cloakroom skill in the name of moderation. Johnson's goal: enactment of a compromise civil rights bill...