Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panic. Thus there was no reason to panic on that sunny Sunday last week when Maddox lookouts sighted three Communist torpedo boats near the island of Hon Me (see map). The destroyer merely continued north on its patrol, and in due course made a leisurely turn and headed back south...
...Talk to My Gun." Yet the Viet Cong still control vast sections of the country (see map): of 43 provinces, the guerrillas have significant control in 22, operate widely in all the others. In their "liberated zones," the Reds fly the yellow-starred Viet Cong flag, collect taxes from local peasants. Near Tanan, south of Saigon, the local Red tax chief is a woman, Kim Luom; when peasants plead that they have nothing with which to pay, she lays her .45 on the table saying: "Don't talk to me; talk...
HALL OF SCIENCE. Atomsville, U.S.A., is strictly for small fry. So that parents will take the hint, the entrance is only five feet high. The little visitors can prospect for uranium on a world map, produce electricity by riding bicycles, shoot "neutrons" at "uranium atoms" on a pinball machine, and measure their weight in atoms. They seem to have plenty of fun, whether or not they learn very much about atoms...
...office wall of Home Minister Gulzari Lal Nanda is a map of India that bristles with small flags, each representing a town where there has been serious unrest over the nation's growing food crisis. Every week brings more flags to the map: protest demonstrations in Bombay, a rampaging crowd in Rampur, looting of grain shops in Agra. India's Reds are busily preparing "mass agitation" to exploit the food shortage. Said Communist Party Chairman S. A. Dange: "A government that cannot feed the people should quit...
...called seas are waterless plains), so Nowicki selected Mösting A, an easily identified crater near the center of the disk and gave the bottom of its crater the arbitrary altitude of 7,000 meters (23,000 ft.) to serve as reference for all other elevations. The finished map, which is 4.5 ft. in diameter, includes more than 5,000 surface features, giving elevations in hundreds of meters. One version of the map shows high and low areas in colors: the highest mountains (14,000 meters) are light yellow, the lowest depressions (3,000 meters) dark blue. The chromatic...