Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over his new command at a few hours' notice; but he quickly sized up the Eighth Army and its strategic and tactical situation. Last week, while conferring with a regimental commander on the battlefront, Van Fleet pointed with his big forefinger to a terrain feature on the map. "Is your second battalion still in this position?" he asked the colonel. The officer looked astonished at the Army commander's detailed knowledge, then grinned. "Yes, sir," he said, "it still...
...Grande and Cape Horn. Five are staff correspondents based in our four Latin American news bureaus. They are assisted by five "legmen," each a citizen of the country where his bureau is located. The other 21 are string correspondents. These journalists, many of whom are pictured on the map below, cable some 19,000 words of news research to us each week. Eleanor Welch, Assistant Chief of Foreign Correspondents and a veteran reporter herself, keeps in constant touch with them by letters and cables and drops by to see them on an annual working visit. Miss Welch also coordinates their...
Fast travel over South America's great distances is the toughest part of the staff correspondent's job. Said Rio Bureau Chief Frank White a fortnight ago : "We often hold our story conferences in the back of our Jeepster. Everybody sleeps with a map of Brazil, plus assorted airlines timetables, on his night table." Just back from a 7,000-mile trip up the Amazon Valley, White sometimes covers points in northern Brazil that are closer to the United States than to his home...
...Thorgersen and the News (weekdays 7:35 p.m., Du Mont) brings a veteran newsreel announcer to network TV but can't make him comfortable. Backed by the standard props of a clattering teletype machine, a Korean wall map and the usual succession of still photographs, Thorgersen nervously shuffles through news releases with the distracted air of a man who has not quite finished his homework...
...most TvA members seem cheerfully willing to take their chances. Said one dancer: "Before the contract, you'd just sit and sit at rehearsals waiting for them to call you. Now that they have to pay for rehearsals, they really map out a show. You have to be on time, they have to be on time, and, best of all, you get out on time...