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Soaring beyond the plateau...
Sastrugi. Doggedly sticking to its scientific schedule, but far behind its timetable, the Fuchs expedition crawled up the domed icecap from South Ice. It painfully threaded through a line of nunataks (mountain peaks almost submerged in ice), and reached ice with fewer crevasses on the high plateau behind. Here were great fields of sastrugi-wind-formed ridges of hard-packed snow sometimes 4 ft. high. The Sno-Cats crossed them all right, but with dangerous pitching and crashing. Progress slowed to a crawl; the weather grew worse; but the scientists kept to their schedule as if they were making their...
...thick, topped by a 20-ft. belt of "hard" ice. In turn, the hard-ice belt is covered by a surface layer of snow and ice 77 ft. thick. After studying his charts, Linehan said: "We probably can assume that the same type of rock keeps on through the plateau...
Pinch & Punch. What did the signs add up to? Answers ranged from a breather (Dwight Eisenhower) to a serious recession (Texas' easy-money Democratic Congressman Wright Patman). Various economists and businessmen called it recession, rolling readjustment, healthy adjustment, mild cyclical adjustment, slowdown, shakedown downturn, downtrend, sidewise movement, plateau, leveling off, period of hesitation, soft period, temporary cyclical swing in long-term growth, polka-dot prosperity with the spots getting bigger...
...defect in sugar metabolism, edged back toward normal. After injections were stopped, the biochemical improvement lasted about a week, and the mental improvement about ten days longer. On repeated courses of injections, the patients got better and better. Says Dr. Altschule: "We have not yet reached the plateau at which improvement has leveled...