Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After such factors as the size of suburb, nearness to a central city, rate of growth and educational level were examined, four basic community types came into focus. A correspondent was then assigned to explore one example of each. "Our purpose was to map the suburbs as they exist today in three dimensions," said Senior Editor Jason McManus. Keith Johnson, who wrote the story from the material supplied by Harris, the correspondents and Reporter-Researcher Marguerite Michaels, found as he studied the returns that he too had "enjoyed the mythology, but I always wondered how accurate it really...
...map and on the ground, they congeal into patterns of dense urban settlement on the rim of the New York metropolitan area-Newark and East Orange and Orange and Maplewood and Irvington and Bloomfield and Glen Ridge. There are no green belts, no distinct borders: instead, there are parkways, railroads, and political boundaries that may run through the middle of a block. Main Street in East Orange becomes Main Street in Orange, and except for the change in house numbers, one town melts into another. Near the center of East Orange is a giant cross formed by the interchange between...
Helicopter Hazards. As they search for the story of the Laos campaign, correspondents have had little choice but to ride to the front in Viet Nam air force (VNAF) helicopters-high risk transportation at best. Comparatively inexperienced, VNAF pilots fly well enough but are poor map readers-a potentially fatal failing in an area where pinpoint accuracy is essential. Three weeks ago, four civilian photographers, including LIFE'S Larry Burrows, were presumably killed when a VNAF helicopter got lost over Laos and was shot down. Staffers of A.P., U.P.I., the New York Times and Washington Post have simply stopped...
...fatal flight, most other Vietnamese generals now travel in U.S. Army choppers, fearful that VNAF pilots may lose their way. Fortnight ago a VNAF helicopter carrying U.S. newsmen got temporarily but totally lost over unfamiliar terrain in South Viet Nam. In another case, a VNAF pilot casually chalked map coordinates to his destination on the outside of his chopper windshield, only to find himself forced to try to read them backwards from the inside of his ship during flight...
...Today hardly any type of commercial or human activity in the U.S. goes unrecorded, unpredicted or unencumbered by computers. The machines keep track of almost every bank check, reserve nearly all scheduled-airline seats, scrutinize every federal income tax return. Computers help to diagnose illnesses, plan radiation therapy, and map a path for the brain surgeon's scalpel. One computer has synthesized the tone of a trumpet so authentically that experts cannot distinguish it from a genuine trumpet blast. In fact, the cybernetic sweep has reached so far that one harassed Manhattanite placed an ad last week...