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When Bowdoin College's hockey team faces the Crimson in this season's opener, the Polar Bears will be taking on one of the most powerful varsities in Crimson sports history, squad offering Coach Cooney Weiland a wealth of talent unprecedented to his 12 years at Harvard...
Other European airlines are taking similar precautions. In the U.S., Pan American has had the closest contact thus far with the high-altitude fallout, because its several near-polar routes take its planes through fresh radioactive clouds from the Russian tests. According to the Public Health Service, which checks Pan Am's planes, they are already ten times as radioactive as before the Russian tests started. The radioactive material does not cling to smooth, clean surfaces. It nestles in places where the air stream makes abrupt turns. Oily spots, which are sometimes unavoidable, catch the hot particles, which also...
...contains remnants of the past. There are still dismal, muddy villages like those where Dostoevsky and other political exiles suffered their dark night of the soul. Most of the Communist labor camps have been closed, but the ghosts of those who died in them are as palpable as the polar blizzards heralding Siberia's long winter. The cities are still cluttered with the wooden hovels of yesteryear, peasant women still do their laundry in the icy rivers, and men still wear the padded-cotton clothing of China. Horsetail Banners. But there have been vast changes as well. Under...
...Transport, the automatic weather station will be placed this month on uninhabited Graham Island in the Canadian Arctic. It is expected to work unattended for at least two years, transmitting by radio every three hours the temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and velocity at its bleak location. Should a polar bear or an arctic fox come sniffing around, it will not be damaged by radiation. The magic fire will be underground and shielded from the world by three-quarters of a ton of lead...
Since a single navigation satellite cannot cover the whole earth, the Navy plans to have four of them in operation by October 1962. Revolving on polar orbits, they will divide the earth into quadrants. By that time authorized ships will be equipped to use them as guides across the world's oceans...