October 20, 1975: Monday

Had this absolutely ridiculous dream about something that seemed perfectly ridiculous at the time.

Cold, snowing, high winds. No traverse. Worked on thin sections of the 1A samples. Developed some more pictures of the iceberg drill site frame. Peter’s using one as the cover for the DVDP #6 Bulletin. It’s very difficult getting a perfect print down here. Made two large (12 by 16) prints. Gave one to Dr. Treves. The other goes to the lab. We marked the drill site on it.

Ran off some of Dr. Treves’s Antarctic Journal articles for Nartsiss and gave him reprints from Peter’s papers.

Bio-Mike determined that McMurdo Sound sea water was 3 counts above normal background radiation. He was going to recommend that the Sound should be drained, transported back to the States, and disposed of. But someone in Washington might do it.

Important revelation from Plain Speaking. C. Estes Kefauver was a Tennessee Senator, head of a Senate Organized Crime Investigation . He ran for president wearing a coonskin cap. He was nominated for Vice-President in 1956. Defeated by Eisenhower-Nixon. All right.

Mike has a tape of the Ohio St. - Michigan St. game. Gees. I’d swear it was a comedy tape. The first half-hour is all that pre-game junk. The sports writer for the Des Moines Register is picking the outstanding player. The winning athletic department gets a La-z-boy rocker. R-O-L-A-I-D-S. Relief. Sick.