Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FIRST POLAR FLIGHTS by U.S. airlines will start this fall. Pan American and T.W.A. will fly over the polar region from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Europe, while Pan Am will also fly via pole from Seattle and Portland, Ore. Scandinavia's SAS now is only line operating over polar route...
Famed, ruddy-cheeked, Old Polar Hand Bernt Balchen, colonel (ret.), U.S.A.F., who flew rescue missions with the 1925 Amundsen Arctic expedition, piloted Rear Admiral Byrd's plane America across the Atlantic in 1927, in 1929 flew with Byrd on the first aerial crossing of the South Pole, dropped in at Washington's Mayflower Hotel to reminisce with some old friends. Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard...
...highways are cluttered with custard stands sporting neon polar bears, while billboards, with their mass messages, evoke visceral responses from the more sensitive traveller. Inside the home, furniture varies from the overstuffed, confused style of Flatbush Renaissance to the cast-iron and cloth butterfly chair...
Word came from the Antarctic that the 18 U.S. explorers hibernating at the South Pole have averaged a weight loss of 15 Ibs. per man. Biggest loser: Paul A. Siple (TIME, Dec. 31), scientific boss of the polar party, down to 217 Ibs. from his normal 250. All of the pole sitters are in good health and spirits despite such inconveniences as a recent temperature of 100.4° below zero-a record...
...would seem that the architects have been having almost as much fun with the geodesic dome as their youthful clientele. At this time, their structure is being used in polar weather stations, radar shelters, tents, and even a restaurant. The Play-dome hasn't hit the Harvard market yet, but it is only a matter of time and warm weather before the Charles is lined with hemispheres and sunbathers. The only problem in such a beach umbrella substitute would be its transportation--but geometry may have solved that too. Two geodesic domes fastened together make a geodesic sphere. Couples could...