Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FLYING back from the South Pole to McMurdo Sound one day this month, Correspondent Edwin Rees of TIME'S Washington Bureau learned firsthand about the dread Antarctic whiteout, the dazzle of reflected light that erases all landmarks and horizons. It was, said an airman, "like flying inside a pingpong ball." The big Air Force troop carrier groped for the icy runway, plowed into a snowbank and slithered over the ice with nose down and tail high. "The feel and sound of 150,000 pounds of airplane sliding out of control is an experience I would like only once," said...
...than two weeks in the Antarctic with Polar Explorer Paul Siple and other members of the U.S. expedition to report this week's cover story. As part of his assignment,he trudged the volcanic hills, rode Weasels over crusty snowfields and went on supply-dropping missions over the Pole. When the mission was washed out by poor visibility and the plane had to burn off 15,000 pounds of fuel before risking an icy landing, Rees flew in one afternoon over more territory than was covered by all previous Antarctic expeditions...
...howling gale, Siple recalled that a member of the first Scott expedition (1901-04) had been blown to his death from that very spot. "Look," the explorer shouted, "there's his cross." By the time Rees was ready to leave McMurdo Sound for home, and Siple for the Pole, where he will stay 14 months, the explorer jokingly remarked: "Now you know as much as I do about what has to be done at the Pole, and I know enough about how TIME reporters work so we can switch jobs. You go to the Pole...
...landing, its skis burying softly, quickly into the sandlike antarctic snow. Siple was first out; after shaking hands with the men who had come from the huts to greet him, he unloaded his gear from the plane. At this two-mile-high U.S. base at the South Pole, Paul Siple (who first visited the antarctic as a Boy Scout with Admiral Richard Byrd's 1928-30 expedition, was a member of four later expeditions) will direct the research activities of a group of U.S. scientists who in the coming months hope to wrest from the antarctic some...
...NORTH POLE FLIGHTS from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle to Europe probably will be started before summer by Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines. CAB examiner urged that the two U.S. airlines be certified to fly via Pole from West Coast, thus cut flight time to Europe by five to 15 hours. Scandinavian Airlines System now holds monopoly on route...