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...winter sports. In the 1870s, wealthy New York sportsmen got their kicks racing express trains along the Hudson River shore, and in 1908, a New Jerseyite named Elisha Price piloted his ice yacht Clarel to a speed record of 140 m.p.h. But iceboats soon yielded to icebreakers and year-round commerce on the Hudson, and the sport mostly moved West-to the Great Lakes, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The great (up to 68 ft.) old ice yachts that carried more than 1,000 square feet of sail gave way to light, one-or two-man boats that could be bought...
...ceilings in both houses vary from 9 ft. to 30 ft. high, the walls are 8 in. thick, and there are plenty of windows; air conditioning has so far been unnecessary. The Taylors built it mainly for weekends, now find themselves staying there year-round. "It's a terribly exciting house to live in," says Mrs. Taylor...
Reading period and exam period come twice a year to everyone in the Harvard community. Everyone, that is, but the gentlemen of the Department of Buildings and Grounds. While students attempt to make up back work, write papers, work out problem sets and read, Buildings and Grounds sticks to its year-round schedule. B & G's men remain busy at their usual tasks; painting students' rooms, varnishing woodwork in students' rooms, removing wallpaper in students' rooms, and cutting lawns outside students' rooms (during the spring). Perhaps the powers that be in Buildings and Grounds could find a better time...
McMurdo supports three other main year-round bases, one of which, in the storm-lashed Ellsworth Mountains, is 1,525 air miles distant, as well as two dozen smaller, seasonal outposts such as Beardmore Station, near one of the world's biggest glaciers, where 70,702 tons of equipment had to be airlifted recently to supply a three-man Navy meteorological team for a 30-day stay...
...north around the Arctic Circle, scientists and engineers have been engaged for years in a cold war that knows no politics. From both sides of the Iron Curtain, volunteers enlist in the fight against a common enemy: permafrost, the iron-hard layer of dirt and rock bonded together by year-round ice. Permafrost underlies 20% of the earth's land area. It is 150 ft. thick at Fair banks, Alaska, more than 2,000 ft. thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. Permafrost blocks well shafts, freezes oil drills, makes water piping and sewage disposal costly, heaves...