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...Cook wa's born in 1865. He worked his way through medical school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...
...group of Soviet meteorologists, who have recorded Arctic temperatures for a decade, reported last fortnight that the Arctic is warmer. They are backed up by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, onetime chief of Explorer Roald Amundsen's scientific staff, now head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, who found Arctic sea water warmer in 1931 than it was in 1918. The Northern Hemisphere is still recovering from the last great glaciation of the Ice Age, though for chronological purposes this period is considered to have ended some 20,000 years ago. The continental ice sheet which once covered...
...other conversation went further. The human participant was a Chicago animal-trainer, Reuben Castang. London-born son of an animal buyer, black-haired Reuben entered circus work 50 years ago in Hamburg, Germany. His greatest boast: when Explorer Roald Amundsen planned to have polar bears instead of huskies haul sleds on his 1910 polar dash, he, Castang, was chosen as trainer. He taught 21 bears to pull sleds in harness. Then Amundsen decided to use dogs after all. Since then, Castang has trained chimpanzees almost exclusively...
...Hudson, Baffin, Parry, Ross and Franklin, intrepid seamen and scientists whose names memorially dot the Arctic, were some among dozens who sought a key to the Northwest Passage to Asia across America's ice-locked top. But not until 1906 did any man navigate completely across the Arctic. Roald Amundsen, Norway's hero-explorer, in a three-year trip and with the loss of one of his seven men, traversed the first Northwest Passage*-Baffin Bay, Barrow Straight, along the west coast of North Somerset Island to Cambridge Bay and out to Beaufort Sea and the Pacific. Amundsen...
Immediately after the current Presidential campaign's liveliest rally to date, Nominee Knox headed back East in his special train, stopped frequently to address crowds large and small. When the Roald Amundsen, his private car, reached Chicago, Frank Knox's tour had ticked off 9,000 miles from Maine to California...