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...Once fierce winds drove the races from the Sound to a sheltered inland pond, and there Knapp's sister was disqualified for thunking into a chicken coop. Today, the most devout followers are joined in the no-dues, no-assets Frostbite Yacht Club. The club burgee is a polar bear standing on a cake of ice, his rump raised to the wind, and after the annual regatta, awards are passed out: i.e., Upholder of the Right of the Port Tack (to the skipper with the least regard for racing rules), Order of Sparta (to the racing committee that laid...
...miles above the earth, it breaks up many two-atom molecules of oxygen into separate atoms. The air is so thin at that level that the lonely oxygen atoms can seldom get together and reunite to form normal molecules. When the long darkness of winter creeps over the north polar region, an area of abnormally low pressure develops at 30 to 40 miles elevation. It sucks air down from above, and with the air come oxygen atoms that were brought to the pole by the circulation of the high atmosphere. The air is compressed by sinking down, the atoms...
What effect this polar heating has on the world's weather Dr. Kellogg does not know yet. He suspects that it may be connected with the sudden "explosive warmings" that mark the breakup of winter over many parts of the earth...
Manufactured for Lockheed by Bell Aircraft Corp., the Agena rocket has been used in its original single-shot version as the second stage of the Thor rocket, which has successfully injected six of the eight Discoverer satellites into polar orbits. The Agena is designed to ignite when high in the vacuum of space. This is not easy because few fuels will ignite in a vacuum. Bell gets around the problem by using hypergolic fuels (unsymmetrical dime-thylhydrazine and inhibited red fuming nitric acid) that ignite spontaneously as soon as they come in contact. After the first stage burns...
Divorced. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., 39, son of the Navy's late polar explorer; by Emily Bradley Saltonstall, 39, daughter of Massachusetts' Senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall; after eleven years of marriage, four children; in Lowell, Mass...