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...Wild East. Siberia stayed underpopulated so long because newcomers recoiled from the first experience of its immensity and climate: January temperatures plummet to 100° below, while August temperatures soar to 120° above. Nature shaped the land with a grim hand. In prehistoric times, Siberia was a vast ocean, and its topography still resembles that of a shallow sea bottom, raised at the edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen...
...chubby-faced leader, they seemed in direct line of descent from Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. But the music the Gregg Smith Singers performed last week at the avant-garde Contemporary Music Festival at Darmstadt, Germany, was as tortuously difficult as any being written. After listening to the visitors soar with uncanny ease through the continuing complexities of Schonberg, Krenek and Ives, Darmstadt Director Wolfgang Steinecke paid a rare tribute: the group was, he said, "Bestes Ameri-ka"-the best of America...
...Bronze Star and Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters flying a P-38 with the Ninth Air Force in World War II, graduated from Harvard Business School in 1950. Not long ago he belonged to that tiny covey of airmen who might some day soar to Chief of Staff. So when he began a teaching stint at the new Air Force Academy and did well enough to be asked to stay on, Brigadier General McDermott braced for a career crash landing. The Air Force moves up flyers and commanders, but it will not give top rank to teachers...
...better term to describe what the U.S. economy seems headed for. The real optimists had an even more hyperbolic word to describe what is coming: Superboom. By next spring, they predict, Berlin-inspired defense orders will strain U.S. productive capacity, and by Christmas 1962, the gross national product will soar to nearly $600 billion...
...sailplane enthusiast, the best things in life are a cramped cockpit, a long slender wing, a stout updraft, and unending miles of sky. Given these things, plus ice to suck and fruit to munch, he will soar hawklike for hours on invisible fountains of air, wrapped in a silence so absolute that he can hear the faint whistle of a train passing below. Last week, in the 28th annual national soaring championships at Wichita's municipal airport, the pick of the U.S.'s 2,500 sailplane pilots were living the good life high above the Kansas plains...