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...that Russia can produce), spare parts, and the fuel to run them have been consigned to the virgin lands. Some of the toughest commissars in the party were chosen to oversee the gamble, which is taking place in 16 regions across the Volga, in the Urals, in western Siberia. It is concentrated on the sometimes arid, sometimes frozen steppes of Kazakhstan...
...Arctic icecap, covering some 3,000,000 square miles from Greenland to Northeastern Siberia, is the source of cold winds and ocean currents that affect the climate of the northern hemisphere. Last week Edward L. Gorton Jr. of the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office released the first results of a continuing analysis of the polar wasteland...
Much of the rest of the Arctic Sea's bottom is mountainous too. The Russians said that earth folds run across it from eastern Siberia to Ellesmere Island, north of Canada. They did not say how they got this information; presumably they did it by echo-sounding through the Arctic ice or through holes...
...Russians claimed to have gathered much information on water and air move ments in the Arctic regions and on irregularities in the earth's magnetic field. Near Siberia, they said, the magnetic meridians are gathered into almost parallel bundles that point across the Arctic Ocean toward the magnetic pole in northern Canada. Magnetic meridians normally converge like geographical meridians...
...With a twinkle in his eye, Sir Winston threw in his well-assembled rebuttal. "I cannot feel that this is a day of tribulation," he said. "We are all naturally concerned with the prodigious experiments in the Pacific, but ... we would rather have them carried out there than in Siberia...