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...World, by Hans Ruesch. A sketchy but fresh-faced novel about Eskimo life in the Canadian Arctic, in which the Eskimos get along just fine with their folkways until the white men barge in (TIME...
Exercise Sweetbriar was a test to determine whether, in spite of all the known difficulties, men & machines could fight a war in the Arctic. A Canadian combat team was sent north from Whitehorse in the Yukon. An "aggressor force" of U.S. troops from the Alaska Command headed south. Later, a U.S. combat team, brought in from Colorado, went up the highway to reinforce the Canadian defenders. Referees ordered attacks, withdrawals and flanking movements and directed operations of U.S. and Canadian aircraft...
...first week, Army experts were able to draw a few conclusions. The men were bearing up well under the North's rigors. Frostbite and colds took their expected toll. But enough soldiers remained in action to prove that warfare on a fairly large scale was feasible in the Arctic...
Although the men could take it, some of the machines could not. The'so-called all-weather fighter planes - U.S. F-80s and Canadian Vampires-functioned well enough mechanically but were frequently grounded by Arctic snow flurries and overcast. The U.S. Army's snow vehicle, the Weasel, was a dismaying failure; of 100 brand-new Weasels put into action, nearly half broke down in the first five days. The Canadian Army's counterpart, the Penguin, stood up better but was too bulky to maneuver among the pines off the road. Before Sweetbriar was half over, observers were...
...their wild state, polar bears and Alaskan brown bears do not mate. For one thing, polar bears live on arctic ice, brown bears on solid ground. They also belong to different species. So when a male polar bear cub named Snow White and a female brown bear cub named Ramona were put together in a cage at the Washington Zoo more than ten years ago, the animal experts did not expect much to happen...