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...Eskimos developed the tools they needed: self-assurance, a sense of achievement, pride. "We built this hall to last forever!" said Willi Imudlik of the substantial wooden meeting place that he helped to erect. "Whose store is this?" asked a visitor to the co-op trading post in Whale Cove. "Uvaguk!" shouted everyone in it proudly. "Ours...
...Cover) One of the American heroes of the Viet Nam war is not a man but a machine-a snub-nosed, whale-tailed airplane that looks as if it would be lucky to get off the ground. Officially designated the C-130 Hercules, it is known as the "Herky Bird" to thousands of U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, and it provides them with the sustenance of life. The cargo-carrying Herky Bird works when monsoon rains keep supply ships offshore. It flies ammunition and chow to artillery units isolated by the Viet Cong, now moves 65% of the military...
...depth at which SPECTRE's flippered villains so easily recovered the "Thunderball" of James Bond's latest cinematic adventure. The real thing was far harder to lift. In order to recover the bomb, American officials called on devices that even Ian Fleming had never conceived: the whale-shaped Aluminaut (TIME, Sept. 11, 1964), a 51-ft., three-man sub devised by General Dynamics Corp. to probe 17,000 ft. beneath the sea's surface, and a 22-ft. two-man U.S. Navy sub named the Alvin, which can work as deep...
...Rock." The term has been a designation for many places by men suffering from civic disability-Alcatraz, Guam, Oahu-but the old original Rock was Gibraltar, that whale-headed monolith that was a minor prize and major symbol of the British Empire in its grandest days. Mocked the anti-imperialist Catholic poet Chesterton: "Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain, and attached to its base is the district of Spain...
...take amounts to 400 books, 1,600 shy of Syble's 2,000-book goal, which represents $240,000 worth of groceries-a whale of a lot of grits. By the time they have them in hand, the Kleagle eagle may even be able to read an altimeter...