Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atlas, which includes a 160-page index, is at its best in its superb relief maps. In addition, each large area of the planet is shown, by means of color photos of a specially built globe, as it would look from a point several hundred miles out in space. The technique gives, for instance, a sense of the almost landless expanse of the Pacific with a vividness that could be duplicated only by taking an ocean voyage or reading Conrad. Throughout the book, geology is used to explain geography. Below the map for Florida, for example, is a diagram demonstrating...
...political maps are sound, if unexceptional. Following State Department protocol, such divided countries as North and South Korea, North and South Viet Nam, East and West Germany, China are shown in one color-since by U.S. policy they are all really single nations. Thus the Cold War's most crucial boundaries end as unobtrusive red lines. And by omitting any map of the old African colonial empires, the atlas fails to dramatize the most important change of the last 15 years in the world's political maps-the breaking up of the old empires into 24 new nations...
...North from the South." For another, the shift shows the momentum of the force that creates chronic-unemployment areas when industry moves out-a problem that no one yet fully understands how to remedy. And it points up the need to explain the story of the new industrial map to the rapidly growing horde of new workers, so that a Southern boy training to be a die cutter will realize that he does not have to go to Detroit for work; the job he wants may be just 50 miles up the road from home...
...cold, wet spring of 1945, the Allied Expeditionary Force under General Dwight Eisenhower crossed the Rhine and began the great sweep across the German plain toward juncture with Soviet armies advancing through Poland (see map). On April 12 armored units of Lieut. General William H. Simpson's Ninth U.S. Army reached the Elbe River near Magdeburg and Tangermünde, and thus came within 60 miles of Berlin. At that moment, Marshal Georgy Zhukov's Russian troops were bogged down 35 miles east of the German capital; they had been struggling for two months against the savage opposition...
...believes that the attack may well be the signal for a new Red drive against South Viet Nam, part of an overall, constant movement to infiltrate and encircle the whole area (see map). The Viet Cong guerrillas get their seasoned cadres and supplies from Communist North Viet Nam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which parallels the borders of neighboring Laos and Cambodia. There is no interference from Laos, which may even be a supplier, since daily flights of Soviet Ilyushin planes land on the Communist-held Plaine des Jarres to disgorge arms for the 20,000-man Pathet...