National Geographic - February 1965, Vol. 127, No. 2
.Four-ocean Navy in the Nuclear Age
Incredible Photograph
Shows Earth from Pole to Pole (Nimbus 1 weather-watching satellite)
The Leakeys of
Africa: Family in Search of Prehistoric Man, by Melvin M. Payne
Picture-book
Portofino (Italian Riviera)
North Toward the Pole
on Skis, by Bjorn O. Staib (Six-man Staib Expedition embarks from Canada’s
Ellesmere Island, with 50 dogs, and reaches the farthest point north on foot,
since Robert E. Peary in 1909.)
Birds That See in the
Dark with Their Ears: South American oilbirds navigate by echo in the blackness
of their cave
the U.S. Navy; the Leakey family; Portofino; the North Pole;
oilbirds. Back cover advertisement:
Coca-Cola (two women under hair driers)
