Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge of the myriad details of this week's wedding is the First Family's social secretary, Elizabeth Clements Abell, 34. Working from a sheaf of check lists and a mammoth plastic-covered map of the White House on which the nuptial traffic flow is charted with a grease pencil, Bess Abell has organized the operation down to the last hairdresser's appointment and millimeter of guest space (2 sq. ft. per person). The last White House wedding of a President's offspring was in 1914, when Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor married Treasury Secretary...
...star 45 Eridani, barely visible to the naked eye from earth and some 466 light-years away. Picking well-known stars in 45 Eridani's region of the sky, he fed data about their positions, distance and absolute brightness into a computer programmed to generate the appropriate star map for any point along the route of the flight...
...Communists have dotted Cambodia's 600-mile frontier along South Viet Nam with dozens of jungle encampments, of which at least five are classified by U.S. intelligence as major bases (see map). The network, which stretches from the marshlands of the Mekong Delta into the bloodied hills of the Central Highlands, is believed to support six regiments of North Vietnamese regulars as well as innumerable Viet Cong guerrillas-a total of up to 20,000 men who are kept busy raiding and reconnoitering along the border. A key base is tucked away in Cambodia's "Parrot...
Examining single objects in depth can also be rewarding here. Closely investigate the Ferman (signature) of Sultan Suleiman a calligraphic masterpiece, or a large fragment of a sixteenth century map of the world that was thought to lie on the outer edges of the Atlantic...
...died in 1965 at the age of 88. He passed the helm of the company to his son, Maersk McKinney* MØller, now 54, who commands his diverse enterprises from an inconspicuous red brick building on King's Square in Copenhagen. Near his desk hangs a world map on which colored magnets chart the day-by-day movements of Maersk Line ships. Says MØller: "What I do is operate a round-the-world bus service...