Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Libya also joined the air blockade. Fortnight ago S.A.A. inaugurated a carefully prepared, out-of-the-way alternate route around West Africa's bulge, via Brazzaville (which so far has not joined the ban), Luanda, capital of Portuguese Angola, and Las Palmas in the Spanish Canary Islands (see map). The "apartheid route" takes about 900 miles and two hours longer to Europe, costs an estimated $3,000 more to operate each way, so that S.A.A. may well be hard pressed to preserve its share of the lucrative European market as well as last year's handsome...
...continental U.S., and its important cities are scattered hundreds and thousands of miles apart. To make matters even more mobile, Brazil has not one capital but three: the political capital of Brasilia, the cultural and communications capital of Rio, and the industrial capital of São Paulo (see map). Few business deals or political maneuvers can be arranged without touching all three bases...
...Diamond had fired more than 1,000 rockets deep into the atmosphere above White Sands. Probing high above the maximum altitude of sounding balloons, his investigative missiles dropped metalized parachutes carrying temperature-measuring devices and providing tracking radars with easily detectable targets. By charting their drift, Diamond hoped to map the weather through which the U.S. must fire its growing family of space vehicles...
...course we would like to see Germany reunited, but if there were conditions of freedom in East Germany the existence of one single German state would not be absolutely necessary." Existential Philosopher Karl Jaspers created a furor by suggesting in 1960 that his countrymen must accept changes in the map of Germany as part of their liability for Hitler. Many Germans now accept his thought: "The only thing that counts is freedom. Compared with that, reunification is a matter of indifference...
...appeared the NAACP was prepared to make a decisive new move against the Committee. Association leaders will meet this morning to map out final plans, but most likely they will bring a suit against the School Committee. Unlike many other states, the Massachusetts state commissioner of education lacks the power to ban, by decree, racial imbalances in public schools...