Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tibet. The feeble Indian good-neighbor policy only encouraged the Chinese to look southward with greater interest. "Tibet is the palm of the hand, and the Chinese have it," says one Indian. "Now they want the five fingers without which the palm is useless." The five fingers (see color map) are Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the North East Frontier Agency. To the Chinese, all five stick out like sore thumbs...
...wrong Frondizi was became clear last week with the first election returns. With 86 congressional seats and 14 provincial governorships at stake, the Per&243;nistas won 44 seats and 9 provinces, plus Jujuy, where they ran in alliance with the Christian Democratic Party (see map). Actually, Per&243;nistas got only 35% of the vote, but their opponents were split. In the balloting, Frondizi's own Intransigent Radical Party polled 540,000 more votes than during the last national election in 1960. Yet so great was the Per&243;nista landslide that Frondizi's party lost...
...Mountaineering Club will present a public lecture tonight on tales of mountain climbing in the Canadian Yukon. The lecture will be in the Map Room of the Faculty Club at 8 p.m., immediately after the winter dinner. The slide-talk will tell of the intrepid third ascent of the East Ridge of Mt. Logan, the second highest mountain in North America. Everyone interested in learning the details of this unusually difficult climb is urged to attend...
...realize," said the President, "that there are among us those who are weary of sustaining this continual effort to help other nations. But I would ask them to look at a map [see map] and recognize that many of those whom we help live on the front lines of the long twilight struggle for freedom, that others are new nations poised between order and chaos, and the rest are older nations now undergoing a turbulent transition of new expectations. Our efforts to help them help themselves are small in cost compared to our military outlays for the defense of freedom...
...friend drove him and his wife, Mary Welsh, to their house in Ketchum, Idaho. "He watched the road a great deal; he was concerned about reaching each appointed destination-seemed worried about the gas supply, the tires, and the road, and followed their progress constantly on a large map which he carried." About 7 o'clock two mornings after they arrived, "he took the final positive action of his life. Like a samurai who felt dishonored by the word or deed of another, Ernest felt his own body had betrayed him. Rather than allow it to betray him further...