Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest inside is a bit more predictable, The usual calculated whimsy, the trivia, the place names, are all back making their bids for laughs, (But I did meet a girl who was thrilled that the Lampoon Playboy parody had put Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on the map.) As for the worst offense -- well, the incomparable Max Beerbohm once wrote of W. S. Gilbert that his "one notion of humorous prose was to use as many long words and as many formal constructions as possible -- a most tedious trick, much practiced by other Mid-Victorian writers." Three Lampoon pieces are guilty...
...change was imminent at the other end of the European ideological map. Last week Madrid buzzed with the ru mor that Francisco Franco was about to give his nation a new constitution at last. This week Franco will call an extraordinary session of the Cortes which, later this month, will accept a new "institutional law" and put it to the people in a referendum before year...
...produced the greatest proletarian traffic jam in history. From Tibet to Tsingtao, the roads, rails and airlines of Red China are jammed with Chinese on the move. Most are Red Guards heading to and from Peking to spread the word of the leader's glory. Their road map-passed out on trains, sung on airliners-is a cheap (about 25?), red, plastic-bound copy of Mao's Thought. So massive is the movement that the government has begun to drop a hint to the faithful: get out and walk...
Peking's engineers on the new system's range and reliability would put Tokyo, Taipei, Manila, Saigon and New Delhi within Chinese striking radius (see map). But any move to strike-or blackmail-those capitals would have to take into consideration the U.S. capacity for retaliation, ranging from simple, non-nuclear bombing power, to missile-borne holocaust...
...feel good to have made it through what the map calls an "impassable passage" or one that isn't on the map at all. Even as a beginner, you feel you've accomplished something when the Grotto inducts you into its "Order of the Gunbarrel" for having "successfully negotiated that curious passage." And when you get outside of a cave and feel the solid ground underneath you, you really know how solid...