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...contest called the cold war, the U.S. piled up one of its biggest weekly scores so far. Capturing men's imaginations round the world, and replying persuasively to Russia's Sputniks, the U.S. Navy's atomic submarine Nautilus completed a historic transpolar voyage under the vast Arctic ice pack, fulfilling in a 20th century way the centuries-old dream of a northern passage from ocean to ocean (see Armed Forces). And in the arena of diplomacy, the U.S. scored high when Nikita Khrushchev, tangled in his own diplomatic web, rejected a U.N. summit meeting in an awkward...
...driven geared turbines purring, its coffeepots perking, its jukebox playing, its 116-man crew caught up with an unusual sense of excitement. On the submarine's closed-circuit TV screens, the crewmen could see an upward-pointed camera-eye view of an ice pack, lit up by the Arctic's 24-hour-a-day sunlight, like a translucent cloud racing by. In his cabin, a slim U.S. Navy commander wrote out in longhand a couple of messages-one addressed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the White House, Washington, the other to his crew. His ship, he wrote...
Billows & Pillows. In his portrait, Author Warner tells a great many of the old Nelson stories, and some unfamiliar ones. Example: as a midshipman at 14, Nelson found himself on an expedition to the Arctic. He tried to kill a polar bear to get its skin for his father. He missed the beast with his first shot and wanted to clobber it with a clubbed musket...
...Soviet ambassador, who has signed agreements with Comrade Josepsson to buy about a third of Iceland's catch, was quick to proclaim Russian support of the new twelve-mile decree. The British Admiralty accordingly let it be known that four new frigates might shortly be added to the arctic fishing protection squadron...
Dynamic Chemistry. The airplane, operated by scheduled airlines as well as by oldtime bush pilots and private owners, is the tie to the cities for the thousands who live in wilderness villages. Airlines touch Point Barrow in the far north on the Arctic Ocean, Kotzebue on Kotzebue Sound, Attu in the Aleutians. Bush Pilot Don Sheldon, 36, hauls Indians and Eskimos, dog teams, pregnant women, dynamite and lumber, drops his handy craft onto a slippery strip in Umiat or on crags high in the mountain ranges. He brings groceries to Schoolteacher Charlie Richmond (home town: Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), who lives...