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National Geographic maps have long set the standard for cartography. They are so accurate that Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill reportedly followed the progress of World War II on them. Under the direction of Chief Cartographer John B. Garver Jr., the map department entered the computer age in 1983 with the acquisition of a specialized computer that enables mapmakers to modify roads, rivers, borders and country names without wholesale revision. Subscribers now receive six poster-size maps a year, each produced by the society's 130 researchers and mapmakers at a cost of $1 million...
Associate Sales Director: Franklin S. Roth...
Associate Sales Director: Franklin S. Roth...
...Sorokin, a Russian emigre who saw ominous parallels between Nazism and Soviet Communism. Nitze shared that lesson with his mentor, Dillon, Read's president James Forrestal, who later became the nation's first -- and most obsessively anti- Communist -- Secretary of Defense. Forrestal brought Nitze to Washington to work for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. Ronald Reagan played George Gipp in Knute Rockne, All American that year, and Mikhail Gorbachev was nine years...
...thrill of personally waiting on some famous person is gone," Knox says. She remembers waiting on Franklin Roosevelt as an experience "much more exciting than to have just seen him come in, packed up his books, and watched him leave...