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...Alpe-d'Huez, France, the German four-man bobsled team over the U.S and Switzerland, setting a course record of 1 min. 11.65 sec. and making a clean sweep of sled titles in Germany's first postwar try at the world championships. ¶In Seattle, Dick Button, 21, world figure-skating champion, for his sixth consecutive national title. ¶In Boston, Miler Don Gehrmann, for his sixth straight victory over FBI-man Fred Wilt, in the track-record time...
...tiny electric ovens-and endless time for minor irritations of dreadnought flying to sap the toughest crewman. The crew's sections are pressurized like bug-bombs. To get from the nose compartment to the rear chamber a crewman has to lie full length on a little roller sled, pull himself hand over hand down an 85-ft. connecting tube...
Traveling alone by dog sled in 1932, lean Father Henri arrived in King William Land, near the Magnetic Pole, with a portable altar and a bare minimum of supplies. Because of his rust-colored beard the Netsilik Eskimos called him Kai-i-o (The Red One); they were fascinated by his long black cassock, and asked whether they could make a tent...
...schoolteacher, 49-year-old Owen Lattimore grew up in China. He roamed the high, bitter steppes and the burning deserts of Asia's hinterlands, became the familiar of Uzbek traders and Mongolian camel herders, and his honeymoon was a trek by camel, sled and shaggy pony through Chinese Turkestan...
...first white man's camp that Eskimo Ernenek ever saw on his hunting grounds in the Canadian Arctic made Ernenek tremble with curiosity. He decided to load his wife Asiak and the kids on his dog sled and pay the explorers a visit...