Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot properly be charged with exploitation, since it takes nothing whatever out of the area, either in profits or produce. As for self-government, how do you form a political community out of 76,000 people speaking nine languages and spread out (see map) over 3,000,000 square miles, demanded one official of the Interior Department, which has jurisdiction over most of the territory. "It's quite probable that you don't," admits Secretary Stewart Udall. "But we are going to have to make a stronger effort to prepare them for economic and political responsibilities...
...areas to exert a strange drawing power. In tourism as in geopolitics, the great land masses have a vast strategic pull. If there is a mystique of the island, there is also a mystique of the continent. While some travelers are magnetically attracted by the Demote speck on the map and by the isolation of surrounding ocean, others are drawn by the large, solid patches and the isolation of the landlocked interior. To them, Africa is perhaps the most challenging tourist domain...
...rivers, shattered 67 dikes, drowned 1,800 people and engulfed 375,000 acres of farmlands. In the aftermath, the public alarm was profound, and engineers swiftly blueprinted a $650 million plan to safeguard the delta forevermore by damming up four of the region's principal sea arms (see map). Fortnight ago the Delta Plan marked its first milestone: the damming of the 2,000-ft.-wide Veersche...
Germination has already begun in parts of the South, is relentlessly moving northward (see map). The great, hopeful new weapon against the enemy is the "pre-emergence" killer, but the big question for the thousands who doused their lawns with the new chemicals is: Will they work? Five companies this year are marketing such products, most of them priced between $9 and $10 for a package covering about 2,500 sq. ft.: Scott's Halts, Dow's Crab Grass Killer, Vaughan's Pre-Kill, Pax's Crabgrass and Soil Pest Control, Swift's Rid; others...
...they are owners, not allies," one confided. "The attack is coming soon. I don't know exactly when; it's no longer our decision. They plan to establish a beachhead, establish there a government-in-arms, hold air control, and move for the interior." On a map he pointed to a spot in Las Villas province, close to the Bay of Pigs...