Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrapped around the flattened underside of the earth is a massive, high-domed shield of rock and ice. This is the Antarctic Continent, a frozen and almost lifeless wasteland studded with glistening mountains that stand like icy tombstones over a cosmos-sized graveyard. In its skies, angry clouds drift over seas of corrugated sastrugi and sparkling glacial spillways. To the explorer this continent of 5,000,000 square miles-three-fourths as big as the U.S. and Canada combined-is a geologic throwback to the Ice Age. It is the world's most hostile environment of earth...
...tore up or blew up the shoreline railway tracks, chopped down telegraph poles, and dynamited even railworkers' huts. The most awesome destruction they wrought on the roads themselves. At a point ten miles east of the canal, the blacktop central road abruptly changed into a jumble of shredded rock. Giant-pronged Israeli machines similar to the "rooters" with which retreating Germans and Italians wrecked roads and railroads in World War II had ripped the pavement to a depth of 12 to 18 in. Last week gangs of Egyptian workmen moving up behind the Yugoslavs had put some 40 miles...
...president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., largest in the country (2,600,000 acres of timberland, 1955 sales of more than $300 million), succeeding his conservation-minded younger brother J. P. Weyerhaeuser Jr., who died early this month of leukemia (TIME, Dec. 17). Timber King Weyerhaeuser was born in Rock Island, 111., graduated from Yale in 1917, piloted U.S. bombers on the Italian front during World War I. He joined Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. as an Iowa field representative in 1920, has been its president since 1929 and chairman of the present company since...
Divorced. By Vivian Elaine (real name: Vivian Stapleton), 35, actress (Miss Adelaide of Guys and Dolls on both stage and screen): Manny G. Frank, 54, her longtime agent; after eleven years of marriage, no children; in Little Rock...
Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson. Elizabeth Taylor. James Dean (TIME...