Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that permits U.S. commercial planes to land there. French are hopping mad because State Department turned down Air France request to carry passengers beyond New York to Kansas City, Houston and Los Angeles. Although U.S. offered to let Air France start flights from West Coast to Europe via North Pole, French broke off negotiations in a huff...
January. Sir Edmund Hillary will deny ASPCA charges that he used penguins to pull his sled when he reached the South Pole. Sir Edmund will say, "The birds are not only bow-legged, but paunchy. The charge is ridiculous." Back in Cambridge, Dean Watson will be fired for having purchased 3,000 IBM machines without authorization. The ex-Dean will declare, "Machines are lots of fun. Lots." Dean Bundy will reply, "Mr. Watson knew quite well that there is no need for 3,000 IBM machines. I suffice...
...Kennedy's senior honors thesis (1940) was ghost-written. President Pusey will deny reports that he is organizing a gold-finding expedition to South America in an attempt to bolster the Program for Harvard College. Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr. will deny reports that he is going to the North Pole on a gold-finding expedition in an attempt to cover certain legal expenses. Mr. Schlesinger will say to reporters, "Go away. Please go away. I'm hiding...
...knows more about surviving at the South Pole than Siple (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), the obvious man to establish the first year-round colony in the world's deep freeze. As a Sea Scout, he went to the Antarctic 29 years ago with Admiral Richard E. Byrd, has spent four winters there since. As it turned out, Siple's buoyant personality proved as valuable as his scientific knowledge. He ran a surprisingly contented camp despite the little group's isolation, and the wearing, jet-black night of winter that was four months long. Siple's formula...
Polar scientists have long speculated on what lies beneath the ice-covered surface of the South Pole, which is 9,200 ft. above sea level. Last week the best look yet beneath the Pole came from the Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J., seismologist, burly professor of geophysics at Boston College and onetime (1923) guard on a good B.C. football team. Jesuit Linehan's findings: the Pole is underlain by rock above sea level...