Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months had passed since Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap conquered the Thai country lying between Red China and Laos (see map). Instead of throwing all his forces against several hundred thousand French Union and Vietnamese troops bottled up in the Red River delta and in the airstrip at Nasan, Giap began probing the defenses of Laos with his Viet Minh commandos. In his exquisite white palace overlooking the palm-fringed Mekong River, aging (67), crew-cropped King Sisavang Vong told the French: "This is my country; this is my palace; I am too old to tremble before danger." Not until...
...China. In a quick thrust, his men drove 50 miles into Yunnan. The Communists counterattacked and drove Li's men pell-mell back into Burma, but did not follow up their victory. Li Mi licked his wounds, lived off the land, extended his control over east Burma (see map). The weak Burmese government-which had won its independence only five years before from the British-was too busy fighting Karen rebels and two different camps of local Communists to deal with Li Mi's men. Growing stronger, Li Mi extended his activities west of the Salween River...
Over 50 students met last night in Sever Hall to lay the foundations of the University Athenaeum, a Harvard counterpart to the Oxford Union. After discussing the "premier meeting" Sunday night, the group broke up into Conservative and Liberal caucuses to map plans for the floor debate over the question "Have the Intellectuals Sold Out America...
...oilmen had wondered whether any oil lies between the Kuwait sands and Arabian American Oil Co.'s fields to the south (see map). MacPherson's strike gave the answer. Even those who had no financial interest were elated. Wired Aramco's Middle East boss of Arab affairs, Bill Eddy, to MacPherson: HALLELUJAH...
Alan I. W. Frank '54, co-chairman of the drive, said last night that Miss Gabor is due over Cambridge at approximately 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. The Air Force helicopter will circle the University once before depositing the Hungarian celebrity on the spot indicated on the map by a cross. There will be a short ceremony at the river bank before Miss Gabor proceeds to a hospital for the donation...