Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comics and cooking are not necessarily the solution to the Sunday paper's waning sense of identity. The disturbing indications that Americans at play are using the Sunday paper mainly as a road map to Disneyland have encouraged many Sunday publishers to re-examine their mission. "The Sunday paper is catching up with this affluent society of ours," says Washington Post Managing Editor Alfred Friendly. "Our readership grows increasingly educated and cultured. I'm delighted with the number of letters we get demanding more and more on art and music. People keep wanting us to be a bigger...
Zinacantan is the physical center of the universe. Or so the Zinacantecos believe people, eight thousand strong, scattered over a mountainous section state of Chiapas, Mexico, near the Guatamalian border--an area that seems quite insignificant on any map of the world. But Zinacantecos do not care how they appear to the rest of the world. They do not even think of themselves primarily as Indians, despite the fact (unrecognized by them) that descendants of the great Mayan race. What a Zinacanteco? He speaks a language known as "Tzotzil." He has developed over centuries a way of life strongly resistant...
...winds of the lower atmosphere until rain or snow brought them down. By studying their charts, U.S. meteorologists figured that this cloud of tropospheric fallout moved southward into Russia, then swung eastward to cross Siberia. At week's end, it was heading across to the U.S. (see map) near Oregon and Idaho where rain was expected to wash some of its radioactive debris to earth...
...wool, meat and butter. (About 35% of the butter Britons eat comes from New Zealand.) Last week New Zealanders heard more cheering economic news: Prime Minister Keith Holyoake announced that a major natural-gas field had been discovered in Kapuni on New Zealand's North Island (see map...
...once, Khrushchev switched his attack to the smallest and least important of Red countries-Albania (see map). He complained that the Albanian Communist Party had remained Stalinist and added darkly: "We cannot make a concession on that fundamental point, either to the Albanian leaders-or to anyone else...