Word: poles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only Allied air force in being in a critical battleground. Yet even after he had been put in command of a U.S. air force of his own and had won the rank of general, he was still treated as a crackpot, remained low man on the totem pole when it came to supplies. He was virtually pushed into retirement days before war ended and did not even get the courtesy of space on the battleship Missouri when the Japanese surrendered...
After McCurdy had practically given up on him as a hurdler, Tom Blodgett, already the team's best pole vaulter, demonstrated enough improvement in speed and endurance to re-establish himself as number two man behind Joel Landau. Wink Pescosolido and Pat Liles developed rapidly as low hurdlers, and distance runner Willy Thompson showed signs of life after a discouraging indoor season...
Field events may be the team's strong point. Doten and Jim Doty in the hammer, Abbot and Doty in the shot, Skip Pescosolido in the javelin, and Blodgett in the pole vault lead a strong group that should produce a few sweeps before the season is over...
...half light of the North Pole, 50 years after Explorer Robert Peary first got there, the U.S. nuclear submarine Skate cleaved up to the surface through densely packed winter ice. There Skate's officers and men, on their second underwater voyage to the Pole (TIME, Aug. 25), conducted a solemn ceremony: they scattered the ashes of Polar Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, dead since last December, who had envisioned the possibility of journeying to the Pole by submarine. That done, Skate submerged, went on to complete a record trip of 3,090 miles and twelve days under the ice pack...
...found last year by Russian explorers, reported Meteorologist Morton J. Rubin of the U.S. Weather Bureau last week. Back from 15 months with the Russians at Mirny on the Indian Ocean coast of Antarctica, Rubin revealed that a Russian party trekked about 1,500 miles inland to the "pole of inaccessibility," setting off dynamite charges in the ice to make seismic soundings every 30-50 miles. Echoes showed continuous land instead of a complex of islands or submerged mountains. The Russians say the land ranges from 2,500 to 12,000 ft. above sea level, with...