Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late Hollywood writer-producer, Don Hartman, who had a pencil in most of the Hope-Crosby-Lamour Road pictures, once explained how their locations were selected: "You take a piece of used chewing gum and flip it at a map. Wherever it sticks, you can lay a Road...
...content with destroying the barricades and breaking the Tunisian blockade, the French next day launched a full-scale attack on the town of Bizerte itself, which commands the narrow entrance to the Bay of Bizerte (see map). Rocket-carrying planes swiftly blasted out the Tunisians' few artillery posts. Tanks and tough paratroopers pushed into the city from the south; marines swarmed ashore on the harbor side in landing craft, as three French cruisers lurked offshore. The Tunisians fought raggedly through the streets, but they were no match for French striking power. Bizerte was quickly in French hands...
...long-suffering witness won permission, at one point, to step from his glass cage and point out on the map locations of German-occupied territories. Every policeman in court rose. Three crowded behind him. Eichmann moved the pointer uncertainly, trying to locate Bialystok. With the air of a teacher dismissing a nervous student, Hausner took the pointer away and found the place...
While three "worthy, honest and decent little countries" (Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia) have vanished outright from the map and seven more have been sealed behind the Iron Curtain, Gunther finds that Western Europe, by contrast, is a far more hopeful place. In most countries, "democratic impulses are comfortably on the ascendant." Europe is enjoying an unparalleled boom, and the Common Market has pushed it closer to economic unity in a quarter-century than it had moved in the previous 500 years. More important, U.S. troops guard the Rhine. For if one thing has not changed, says Gunther, it is Germany...
...term Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has jammed the mechanism by breaking openly with the Democratic bosses (TIME, June 30) and choosing his own running mates for a third-term attempt in November. Ever since, the city's political future has been as confusing as a subway map...