Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, Raisz has taught at Clark University, the University of Virginia, and in Rio de Janiero ("I couldn't speak Portuguese--only Spanish--but we got along fine."). This spring he will go to the University of Florda to teach cartography and to work on a state atlas. Soon he intends to do a landform map of Mexico, as well...
...ATLAS OF THE BIBLE (165 pp.; Nelson; $15) actually lends a new dimension to Bible reading. Its maps pinpoint the geography of Old and New Testament history; its hundreds of photographs lend a sense of life to the setting; its synthesis and summary of archaeology and Bible history put a firm floor of factual meaning under the text of the Bible itself...
Three Suits. The suit against Owens-Illinois was the third antitrust case against the container industry in three months. The Justice Department also wants Continental Can Co. to dispose of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., the No. 2 U.S. glass-container maker, and Robert Gair Co., the No. 2 paper-container maker. Largely as a result of the mergers, Continental Can sales jumped from $666 million in 1955 to more than an estimated $1 billion in 1956, and the company passed its traditional rival, American Can Co., to become the No. 1 U.S. container maker...
...ATLAS ICBM will be test-fired within 18 months. Convair plans to launch its intercontinental missile (range: 5,000 miles) from Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. into Caribbean and Atlantic firing range...
...goods and services." Adds David Rockefeller, executive vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank: "We have reached a point where we stand on the verge of trying to grow too fast, if indeed we have not already started." Says H. Frederick Hagemann Jr., president of Boston's Rockland-Atlas National Bank: "To continue to inflate to even higher levels may lead to a wild boom-and-bust cycle. It can happen here...