Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet navy. To keep track of its movements. U.S. reconnaissance planes overfly Soviet warships at sea at least once daily and sometimes more often in areas near the U.S. coasts and Viet Nam. U.S. planners plot the course of every Soviet ship in the Pacific on a huge map in the war room of the U.S. Pacific Fleet headquarters in Hawaii; the U.S.'s Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets keep similar grids on the location of Red warships. As a precautionary measure, U.S. carriers keep a so-called Air Cap of three or four fighters in the air at all times...
...different artistic front, TIME'S map department, directed by Robert M. Chapin Jr., maintains a Viet Nam "war map" on which deployment of troops, weapons and ships is shifted daily...
...map (p. 37), Correspondent Glenn Troelstrup made on-the-spot diagrams of the street fighting. These were air-expressed to New York and translated by Cartographer Vincent Puglisi onto a U.S. Army street map of the city that had been wheedled from Pentagon sources...
Chapin has been charting and mapping wars, space shots and economic trends for TIME for more than 30 years. Working with him and Puglisi is Cartographer Jere Donovan, who recently created a detailed map of the Berlin Wall that was widely copied, even by German publications...
...careful research that makes the products of his map room so accurate, says Chapin, he must sometimes rely on informed guesswork. He remembers a week during World War II when a cryptic cable arrived from John Hersey, then a TIME correspondent, from Honolulu: "If Chapin is a wise man he will know what to map in the Pacific this week." Chapin studied a Pacific map to find what might make him wise. The only possibility, he concluded, was the Solomon Islands. When U.S. Marines invaded Guadalcanal, TIME'S map was ready to go to press...