Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acceptance of the blockhouse's plans came quickly, but it took a year of haggling before the administration decided where to build Grays. The floorplan was shuttled around a huge map of the Yard, each site meeting with some objection. When the prints sat east of Holworthy, residents claimed this would block their view of Appleton Chapel. If placed behind what is now Weld Hall, argued others, it would choke the growth of the College library which might "expand to 750,000 or a million volumes some day." One position evoked few complaints and was virtually settled on until someone...
...these distances may affect a reporter was described recently by a newspaperman in Northern Rhodesia. Said he: "It sometimes seems that the home office of every newspaper and news agency is equipped with schoolroom atlases which have maps of Africa neatly squeezed into one page. News editors look at the map, see Accra within six inches of Northern Rhodesia, and send off a breezy query...
...others are simply chatty anecdotes. An example of the latter came recently from Lieut. Curtis R. Ehlert of the Air Force, who wrote: "I realize you are aware of your worldwide readership, but in case your records don't show it, you can place a pin in the map near Thule, Greenland, on the icecap." Lieut. Ehlert explained how this pinpoint got there: "My pilot and I are a crew for an F94 Starfire interceptor stationed at Thule. We were going through the final test of our survival training by living for two days in a snow...
...blistering jungle sun; they recaptured Thakhek (pop. 10,000) and knocked out the Communist corridor across southern Laos; they probed north for some 20 miles, and reported the Mekong Valley more or less clear. Then the French put commandos, paratroops and foreign legionnaires ashore at Tuyhoa (see map), thereby breaking into a rich, rice-bearing region that the Communists had occupied, unchallenged, since...