Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ootah, eightyish, last of the four Eskimos who accompanied Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson on their history-making trek to the North Pole in 1909; of old age; near Thule, Greenland. A sturdy, 34-year-old hunter when he served with Peary, Ootah (also known as Odaq) was called "Peary's Iron Man," remarked of the journey back from the Pole: "The Devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily...
...Hotel if he was used to A-blasts (he was). NBC's Dave Garroway was reported by his mates on the Today show as having dug his own trench out in Yucca Flat. Meanwhile, the desperate networks kept rerunning film of the target area until the tall, thin pole with the bulge at the top that was the housing for the bomb was as naggingly familiar as a Lucky Strike commercial...
...Renny Little in the 220 and 440, and Art Siler in the discus and shot put. Phil Williams defeated Dick Wharton in the half mile; Dave McLean edged Don French in the two mile; Ken Wilson defeated Otis Gates in the mile; Kip Smith defeated Don Richards in the pole vault. The Crimson also won the mile relay...
...favorites in the field events include: hammer throw, Stew Thomson of Yale; broad jump, Bruce Hescock of B.U.; high jump, Hescock; javelin, Ed Allen of B.U.; pole vault, Bill Donegan of Yale; discus and shot put, Thomson...
Gold does not guess how long the trap will hold the axis. Eventually, he suspects, it will break away and carry the cold of the North Pole to Mexico or Japan...