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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million contract awarded the Drake-Puget Sound Construction Co. for a job near Mount McKinley National Park add up to one thing to Alaskans: preparation for a string of U.S. ballistic missile bases. Sited along the Alaska Railroad, such bases could launch intermediate-range missiles that would reach Russian bases on the eastern tip of Siberia, intercontinental missiles that could arc across the Pole to Moscow and beyond. The U.S. bases would have the advantage of North America's finest defilade if enemy missiles should fall short: the Alaska Range, topped by Mount McKinley...
...power a hydrogen warhead more than 5,500 miles. Another advantage: Titan can be broken down into two parts for easier ground or air-cargo transportation. Titan has undergone static tests of its component parts, has not yet been tested as a complete weapons system, is not expected to reach test-flight status until fall...
...base at the South Pole, and will probably get there in a few more days. Geologist Fuchs, lean veteran of 30 years of scientific exploration in Greenland, Africa and Antarctica, has announced that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross Sea about March 9. If he crosses Antarctica from sea to sea, he will have accomplished what the great explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton called the "last grand land journey left...
Prominent among the other Crimson entrants in Saturday night's meet will be hurdler Joel Landau, who will take on some of the nation's finest performers in this event. McCurdy was extremely impressed with Landau's showing against B.U., and the Crimson junior should be able to reach at least the final heat of the K. of C. hurdles...
Watson said yesterday that he did not expect the Masters to reach any decision today. He stated that he thought they would want to talk with students who desire to live outside the Houses in an effort to decide whether reasons given were legitimate...