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...transport slid in for its landing, its skis burying softly, quickly into the sandlike antarctic snow. Siple was first out; after shaking hands with the men who had come from the huts to greet him, he unloaded his gear from the plane. At this two-mile-high U.S. base at the South Pole, Paul Siple (who first visited the antarctic as a Boy Scout with Admiral Richard Byrd's 1928-30 expedition, was a member of four later expeditions) will direct the research activities of a group of U.S. scientists who in the coming months hope to wrest from...
...Pioneers! In Tokyo, a few hours after 77 Japanese antarctic explorers steamed Poleward, each loaded with 700 pieces of equipment, the Maritime Safety Board got a hurry-up call, rushed the Coast Guard out to sea with each man's missing gear: coat hangers...
...radio-manufacturer. At the end of 1956's first nine months. Motorola turned in earnings of $4.8 million, only 2% below the 1955 period v. a 49% drop for Admiral, a 65% drop for Philco. The busily diversifying company (transistors, Chrysler's pushbutton gear shift) is currently spending $8 million yearly developing new products...
...inquisitive male reporter discovered that she accomplished this by a standard wifely tactic: she packed some of her gear in her husband's two bags...
Home Is the Sailor. In Ensenada, Mexico, three crewmen of the American fishing boat Sportsman were taken into custody by the Mexican coast guard after Captain E. W. Bartell charged that they threw the boat's food, tools and fishing gear overboard, cut the automatic pilot loose, pulled out a plug in the bait tank, set fire to the engine room, forced him to steer back to port by threatening him with a shotgun and butcher knives, because the cook wanted to visit his pregnant wife...