Word: crosshatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sprawling beneath the new two-story observation tower atop North Mountain, the South Korean capital of Seoul throbs in the midst of a boom that can be seen as well as heard. Skeletons of new office buildings and hotels crosshatch the horizons, schools are going up, black factory smoke fouls the air and a new four-lane expressway slashes through the heart of the city. Restaurants and bars are jammed with cheerful, garlic-reeking patrons. Mini-skirts and bell-bottoms are part of the scene at O.B.'s Cabin, where Seoul's students listen to guitar-plucking folk...
Lost Luck. When the wreck was finally found, the family's luggage was still inside, inexplicably unopened. Lying near the plane amid a Crosshatch of animal tracks, the hunter found the scattered bones-gnawed by bears and coyotes-of two bodies. The search for Alvin went...
...good journalist knows what maps are for. You Crosshatch the Congo, underline Berlin, point an arrow at Viet Nam and - voild - an instant rundown of the world's trouble spots. Regular readers of the Sunday New York Times, for example, feel cheated when the ominous-looking Times map of the world shows fewer than a dozen diagonally shaded peril points or a score of fat, black arrows to denote developing crises. But the fact was that last week it was hard to add up all the trouble spots without a cartographer's score card...
...rising in steel and zeal. New buildings loom high against the slate-grey winter waters of Lake Michigan. Bulldozers cut great swaths through slums; in their wake thousands of new dwellings are being planted. New classrooms keep pace with the growing school population, new expressways crosshatch the megalopolis, manufacturing and income are steadily climbing. Chicago-once described by home-grown Author Nelson Algren as a city on the make-is a city on the move (see color...