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...Near Thule, Greenland, and Clear, Alaska, the U.S. Air Force is quietly building two huge long-range radar stations designed to cover the Communist land mass from the Pacific to Poland and give early warning of Communist missile strikes at a range of 3,000 miles. Name of project: Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS (pronounced be-muse). Cost: $1 billion. The Air Force hopes to complete the Thule station this year, the Clear station in 1960, hopes to get BMEWS operational by the time the Communists are expected to begin deploying sizable intercontinental missile forces...
...Band-Aid. The rescue alert flashed within minutes. Air Forcemen, by now well oriented to the peculiarities of polar geography, knew that they could make a rescue just as fast from Strategic Air Command bases in Newfoundland and Greenland as from Alaskan Command points. From SAC's Thule Air Base in Greenland, cover planes flew across the earth's top to circle Ice Skate and keep in touch lest the camp homer beacon fail. At Harmon A.F.B. in Newfoundland, SAC put on standby two crack C-123J crews who were familiar with ice landings. This time, instead...
Although his ashes have long since been scattered over his beloved Greenland settlement of Thule, Freuchen's restless mind still seems alive. After four months on the counters, his encyclopedic Book of the Seven Seas (Julian Messner; $7.50) remains a bestseller. Probably headed for the list is Freuchen's final work. The Arctic Year, written with Ornithologist Finn Salomonsen (Putnam; $5.95). It deserves a place alongside Freuchen's earlier, bulky volumes of autobiography as a classic study of life in the North...
...cover the metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles of under-ice highway are now under construction between Thule and Fist Clench, and no blizzard that blows will stop the trucks that...
...Warehouse. Even more ambitious is a chamber 65 ft. square and 25 ft. high that the engineers have dug with coal-mining machinery in the face of a glacier near Thule. It is 150 ft. from the top of the ice and 500 ft. back from the face, and it would make a fine warehouse, invisible from above and with built-in refrigeration. The engineers figure that much bigger chambers can be dug without danger of the roof caving in. What they do not know so far is how long their ice structures will last. Ice behaves in some ways...