Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called Vinland map [Oct. 15] would never be accepted in court. It fails in practically every particular for the establishment of authenticity. The authorship is unknown; the date of its supposed original drawing is a wild speculation: there is no evidence of its custodianship from 1957 back...
...around the clock for nine days over our new direct teletype channel from Saigon to New York, came to more than 50,000 words, from which Writer Jason McManus and Senior Editor Ed Hughes fashioned their account. A graphic part of the story is Cartographer Robert Chapin's map showing (within the limits of security) scale diagrams of the bristling new U.S. bases. Eight pages of color photographs-most of them taken only a few days ago-round put the picture of the new war in Viet...
...wall in East Boston, one embittered Italian-American scrawled-'Leif Ericsson is a fink." In other cities across the U.S., indignant sons of Italy and politicians eager for their votes, reacted in like manner to word that Yale University had acquired a medieval map containing additional evidence that Leif Ericsson, riding the wild Atlantic winds reached the North American shore about the year 1000 (TIME, Oct. 15). Though Leif's landing is hardly news in scholarly circles, Yale's just-before-Columbus Day announcement stirred a storm of popular protest strong enough to have blown his longships...
...Chicago, Columbus Day Parade Chairman Victor Arrigo denounced the Yale map as a "Communist plot." New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, on hand for Newark's parade curtly dismissed Ericsson as "just an upstart." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno, author of The Story of the Italians in America charged that the Yalemen "have gone into the moss-covered kitchen of rumor and, on the broken-down stove of wild speculation, fueled by ethnic prejudices have warmed over the stale cabbage of Leifs discovery of America." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal introduced a bill...
With bulldozers and dynamite, they have moved mountains of sand, built some 40 miles of road, helped construct a 10,000-ft. runway from which the first jets will blast off against the enemy next month (see map). Ammo depots, a ten-tank fuel dump with a capacity of 230,000 gal., and a T-pier are all under construction; next month a floating 350-ft. De Long pier will be towed in from Charleston...