Word: arced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your excellent covers. We are particularly fond of Henry Koerner, who painted the "Joan of Arc" [Nov. 28] cover. Shahn's "Freud" is wonderful...
...European segment ended at Crete, and the U.S. Air Force was called in to jump the arc across the Mediterranean to North Africa. The job was done by Hiran (High Precision Shoran), an electronic surveying system...
Bones & Lions. About 200 B.C. the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes ran a geometrical tape measure about the earth by estimating the distance between Syene in southern Egypt and Alexandria in northern Egypt.*Then he measured shadows cast by the sun in both places. This amounts to measuring an arc of the earth's surface and observing the altitude of the sun at both ends. The Army Map Service did the same thing, but the arc that it measured extended (5,777.5 nautical miles) from Finland to the southern end of Africa, more than one-quarter of the earth...
Data for measuring the Finland-South Africa arc came from many sources. The European section had been measured many times, but the latest information was gathered by a group that ransacked Germany after World War II for the Nazis' geodetic secrets, which were dragged from hiding places, including a room full of human bones under a monastery...
Touchy Issue. Israel, Algeria, Formosa, Indo-China, Indonesia, Kashmir, Cyprus and the whole NATO area are serious tension points, said Stevenson. "Today in the great arc from North Africa through Southeast Asia, the Russian challenge is developing rapidly and with great flexibility and force. Everywhere, people seeking a short cut to raise their own standards of life are told that the Soviet Union alone has mastered the secret of converting a peasant economy into a modern industrial state in a single generation. In the meantime we, whose position is fundamentally decent and honorable, have so mismanaged ourselves of late that...