Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the 1960-61 school year, 27,000 large, wall-sized color prints of nine maps, done originally for TIME by Staff Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr. and his assistants, were sent to schools. Included in the group sent out so far in 1961 were maps of Laos, the Congo, Algeria and Red China. Scheduled to go out before the end of the year are new maps of Brazil, Australia and Berlin, the last accompanied by a Berlin bibliography from TIME reaching back...
...Soviet Union last week finally and formally broke silence on where Major Yuri Gagarin was sent into orbit (Baikonur), and where he returned to earth (Smelovka). TIME'S Mapmaker R. M. Chapin Jr. hit it on the button in the April 21 cover story on Gagarin...
...Chapin knew that Russia's Canaveral is in the area around Tyuratam, east of the Aral Sea, and that the angle of orbit of the shot to the Equator was 65° in the direction of Siberia. From this he could construct the orbit once around the earth. He also knew that the elapsed time of the flight was 89 minutes, and could thus figure that the earth rotated on its axis 22½° in this time. Using these figures and constructing the orbit on a transparent globe, Chapin, a trained architect and self-trained geographer, decided that...
...twelve years before, and they took to each other-and to each other's work-at once. Frost, who was still poor and comparatively unknown, was delighted to have Chapin illustrate his volume of poems North of Boston. By 1929, fame had come to both men, and Frost was the pride of the Amherst faculty. That year Chapin went up to the college town to begin his portrait...
...took over a year to finish it: long before brush was put to canvas, he did sketch after sketch of Frost's hands, his head, his posture. "I can't explain it very well," Chapin once said, "but it is the symbolic human gesture that interests me -not the gesture of hands and feet but the carriage of the human body and the human head." Here, the carriage is erect, proud, quietly intense, with wisdom coiled inside like a spring...