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...insipidly enough, Animal House is also quite the Ivy League film. For Animal House is the ultimate Dartmouth movie--or, at least the ultimate rendering of the characteristically snotty Harvard image of Dartmouth (which seems to be somewhat justified)--animalistic, incredibly horny, crude beer-swillers run amok in the tundra. Former devotees of the magazine will recognize the scenario of the film from a sporadic series of Dartmouth frat stories that ran around 1972 or 1973. So what we have here is the Ivy League joke carried out on a fiendishly broad level. Boy, those 'Poonies sure know...
...startlingly different world. Vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere were covered with ice. Across the ice-free parts of Europe and Asia, consisting largely of tundra and great treeless steppes, herds of mammoths, bison, reindeer and horses freely roamed. For long periods, winters were cruelly cold, and even in summertime the average temperature was 12° to 15° C (54° to 59° F.). Still, under these difficult conditions, during a period of 25,000 years before the dawn of civilization, the Ice Age Cro-Magnon people not only thrived, but created a surprisingly sophisticated culture that totally...
Gulag III's most riveting chapters describe the great escapes. Invariably, each ingenious attempt brought pride to the camp-even when the severed head and right arm (for fingerprints) of the escapee were brought back by the police and army units that had scoured desert, tundra and taiga for him. Those who survived capture were likely to try again, like the legendary Estonian Georgi Tenno. Between his ultimately unsuccessful breakouts, prisoners would wonderingly ask Tenno, "What do you expect to find on the outside?" His reply: "Freedom, of course! A whole day in the taiga without chains-that...
...bitter cold keep its stunted pines from growing beyond the thickness of a finger. But as Operation Morning Light continued in the Canadian wilderness near Great Slave Lake, the searchers discovered remnants of the nuclear-powered Cosmos 954: man-made sticks of radioactive metal stuck in the frozen tundra and ice-covered lakes. At least five chunks of the fallen Soviet spy satellite were located. One, a mere 10 in. long and ½in. thick, was emitting enough radiation to kill anyone foolish enough to hold it for two hours...
...Soviets win the battle for the Arctic oil? No one can say for sure. Despite their backwardness and bureaucratic bungling, the Russians have shown remarkable skill and endurance in their present Siberian ventures. They have learned how to insulate rigs against the treacherous thawing tundra and to use aluminum drilling shafts that can be sunk deeper than heavier steel ones. They have developed turbo-drills that, they claim, bore three times as fast as conventional U.S. ones. But despite wages two to three times as high as the national average of $215 a month, workers desert the frozen Siberian expanses...