Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slightly bowed to the status quo. When Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin suggested that the New Left shift from protest to coalition politics and work with labor and liberals, he was berated as a cop-out who was threatening its moral purity. Michael Harrington, who put poverty on the map in his book The Other America, is now similarly denounced; he calls the New Leftists "mystical militants...
...pattern of voting reflects the realities-and the hopes-of the war in Viet Nam (see map). No voting is being attempted in areas held by the Viet Cong or strongly influenced by the Communists. The provinces with the highest percentage of villages participating are naturally those areas strongly secured by Saigon and the U.S. Allied control and influence are greatest in the areas of largest population density in South Viet Nam. But with commendable caution, Saigon is holding elections only where the safety of the voters from reprisals can be reasonably assured. Thus only about half of the nation...
...group of Negro and white volunteers, most of them Harvard and Radcliffe students, will meet Saturday to map out plans for a preliminary survey of housing discrimination in Cambridge...
...through the jungle. Helicopters swooped over the treetops. The searchers were soon joined by 30 aboriginal tribesmen of the area, through which both tigers and bandits are known to roam. Back in Bangkok, a Portuguese Jesuit brother with a reputation for clairvoyance picked out a likely spot on a map, and the commander of U.S. Army Support in Thailand, Brigadier General Edwin F. Black, flew off to Malaysia with it in the distant hope the it might help. Even a local witch doctor tried, and failed, to divine Thompson's whereabouts...
...Smithsonian had originally intended an orrery, the globular celestial map made of intersecting rings and developed for the 17th century Earl of Orrery, for the front of the new building; but its architect, Walker O. Cain, called on De Rivera instead. De Rivera has titled his 20th century piece Infinity, explaining modestly that he named it that solely to prevent the U.S. Government from giving it a still more pretentious name. He made its swooping, stainless-steel lines by extruding a rod of steel and welding its ends together, alternately heating and hammering it like the village smithy...