Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laurence Witten, an obscure antiquarian bookseller in New Haven, unearthed a 15th century European map that compels a reappraisal of the entire age of New World exploration and is rated by the Yale Library as its "most exciting single acquisition in modern times." See BOOKS...
...wearing it. Furthermore, the boy seems to have an excellent chance of remaining in the no-income bracket, his only known assets being far-out light verse, arty photography, folk singing and whacking together his own furniture. Though Fonda's mind and face boggle in a perfect weather map of cloudy consternation, he makes a liberal-minded effort to adjust to all this. His period of adjustment conies to a desperate halt when he learns that the son-in-law intends to deliver the forthcoming baby himself in a self-carpentered obstetrical room...
Victory, in fact, belonged to no one in last week's ceasefire. Kashmir remained divided. India still claimed 690 sq. mi. of Pakistani territory (see map), but had failed by a scant three miles to capture the strategic Sialkot plateau. Pakistan held 250 sq. mi. of Indian Kashmir and Rajasthan, but had lost -temporarily at least - half its armor. And Red China had lost that most val uable of Asian commodities: face...
Under the sponsorship of UNESCO, scientists from more than 70 nations began this year to pool their research talents and facilities in the International Hydrological Decade. IHD scientists are already establishing a worldwide net work of hydrology stations to map climate conditions, to study precipitation, ground-water levels and stream ecology, and to measure water's capacity for self-purification. Says Michel Batisse, a French engineer who heads the IHD: "It may turn out that the most important results of the IHD will not be strictly scientific but the side effects. For the first time, and forever, modern civilization...
...hands full simply helping protect the coastal areas and the Mekong Delta where most of the people of South Viet Nam live. Not for nothing is the only adornment on the otherwise bare walls of U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's office a population map. It shows plainly that the usual Viet Nam maps showing the areas of Viet Cong control are misleading, for their hegemony is in the least populated part of the country (see maps...