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...outfitting a sturdy plane for a special mission. The plane, a type designed for use in Canada's own North country, had been ordered by Sir Miles Clifford, governor of the Falkland Islands. It would stand by as part of the plan to rescue eleven men marooned on Stonington Island inside the Antarctic Circle...
...several scientific teams operated by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, the men have been on Stonington since early 1947. Their supply ship, the John Biscoe, left them there-with 100 huskies and a three-year food supply-for a two-year stint of charting unmapped icebound wastes and making geological, meteorological and cold-weather tests...
Puzzle Solved. On two seismographs at their Stonington Island camp, expedition members recorded a full year of earth rumblings. They also charted temperatures, magnetic variations, the intensity of cosmic rays, the rise & fall of tides (average change: 4 ft.), atmospheric refraction that makes distant icebergs seem to dangle in the air. They found traces of coal, copper and uranium (but none worth mining at present), collected evidence that one continent has been slowly rising as its ice cap melts...
...North Stonington, Conn...
...sent his poem to the New York Herald Tribune, which published it. Last week he got a telephone call. A woman's voice informed him that it was Julia de Saegher calling. She had read his poem; she was living in Stonington, Conn. Mr. Thomson asked her to come to his office...