Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Paul Ely, French chief of staff, flew to Hanoi last week to determine whether he could save the rice-rich Red River Delta. He came upon a darkening battleground. Red General Giap's advance guards were streaming through Mocchau (see map), less than 80 miles from Hanoi; Giap's 90,000 irregulars inside the delta were taking Vietnamese company outposts at the tumble-down rate of five or six a week; and a special Red task force, some ten battalions strong, was pressing a tight, coordinated attack against the three French positions around Phuly, the logical start...
...Talmadge: "The United States Supreme Court . . . has blatantly ignored all law and precedent . . . and lowered itself to the level of common politics . . . The people of Georgia believe in, adhere to, and will fight for their right under the U.S. and Georgia constitutions to manage their own affairs . . . [We will] map a program to insure continued and permanent segregation of the races...
...Murchison has built up an empire of 48 companies, with 50,000 employees and an estimated $350 million in assets-not to mention scores of lesser investments. The companies stretch from Canada to Mexico, from coast to coast, and are as varied as a pirate's treasure (see map). No sooner has he bought a ship line than he wants a railroad, no sooner a candy company than he gets a grocery. Murchison juggles multimillion-dollar deals with the unconcern of a racetrack teller counting $2 bills. In Texas, where such a man is admiringly known as a "wheeler...
...stations"' on the path of the solar eclipse will be ten well-equipped observatories strung out from Canada to Iran (see map). The biggest gap will be the U.S.S.R., where the Russians presumably have stations of their own. As the shadow sweeps past, each observatory will determine the instant of totality, i.e., the time when the moon is centered in front of the sun. This can be done by 1) taking high-speed motion pictures of the eclipse, 2) watching photoelectrically for the moment when the light from the sun is weakest, 3) photographing the sun's spectrum...
...such accuracy would be possible without consideration of the moon's rugged topography. So the Naval Observatory (as interested in practical geodesy as the Air Force is) has supplied a new and accurate map of lunar mountains and plains that will show on June 30 at the edge of the moon's disk. Shafts of sunlight slipping through lunar passes can be allowed for in figuring totality. If such calculations were not made, the error of fitting the North Atlantic to missile warfare would increase about ten times...