Word: charting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centers, then decoded the instant it arrives. Down the hall from the operations center is a room papered with huge maps. On one set, the war in Viet Nam is plotted with up-to-the-hour reports of combat action and other trouble spots. Another chart may track the course of a Soviet ship bound from Odessa to Cuba-along with U.S. surveillance forces in the area...
...find a body on Boston Avenue," said the anonymous caller. Sure enough, police in Medford, Mass., discovered the corpse in the trunk of a gold-colored Mustang. The authorities were neither surprised nor especially agitated. For the state police, it was another entry on the lengthening chart of fratricide among racketeers in Greater Boston. Since Labor Day 1961, when a blood feud started between the McLaughlin brothers and Buddy McLean, 43 victims have accumulated. The original chiefs have long since been killed or incarcerated. Still the bodies fall, much the way the buddies of Jimmy C. and Eddie G. were...
...year was scarcely three weeks old, and its step on Wall Street seemed springy indeed. With a burst of daily trading that surprised brokers-a daily average of 9,544,000 shares v. 7,500,000 last year-chart lines for the New York Stock Exchange pointed almost steadily upward. Boosted at midweek by a one-day gain of 10.41 points, the Dow-Jones industrial average finished the week 12.03 points higher than it began. Overall, the industrials had risen 61.47 since the year began, stood at week's end at 847.16, or as high again as they were...
Held in the grip of a fanatical socialist party that seeks to wrest from Egypt's Nasser the leadership of the Arab left, Syria has become the epicenter on the seismographic chart of Middle Eastern turmoil. From the Sea of Galilee to the Gulf of Aden, its mortars and machine guns, tanks and terrorists ply their disruptive trade not only against Israel but against the nations of the Arab center and right...
...over a planned austerity program, and forced his temporary resignation. The Yugoslav state security agency, UDBA, was cut back by 5,000 cops, and deprived of its power to interrogate suspects outside of court. Most important, Tito declared an end to party "commandism" and declared that Communists must henceforth chart Yugoslavia's course by the force of their arguments and ideology rather than by the pure display of power...