Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sense. This tribal unrest has effectively shown that Europe's national boundaries no longer make much sense, if indeed they ever did. The present map of Europe was carved out by warring armies-and postwar diplomats-only in the past century and a half. In 1830 there were no such countries as Greece, Belgium or Norway. Italy and Germany are scarcely a century old, while Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia date back only to 1918. Underlying Europe's somewhat artificial frontiers is a patchwork of ancient tribal and economic enclaves divided by geography, culture and what Italian Sociologist Francesco Ferrarotti...
Though many people outside Illinois viewed Kerner as a progressive, energetic Governor, he was in fact mostly good looks. His main accomplishments were getting the Atomic Energy Commission to build a multimillion-dollar atom smasher in western Du Page County and appointing a board to map long-range goals for education in Illinois He nevertheless gained such a reputation that Lyndon Johnson appointed him to head a presidential commission on civil disorders. Among the character witnesses at his trial was retired General William Westmoreland, who described him as a man of "impeccable character...
After Gentele's death last July, it fell to Acting General Manager Schuyler Chapin and his aides to map out final details. The resulting three-week season of 25 performances features the Ohana-Purcell double bill, conducted by Richard Dufallo and staged by Paul Emile-Deiber, alternating with a rollicking treatment of Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, conducted by Roland Gagnon and superbly staged by Alvin Ailey. By sprinkling a few gilded names among the less familiar artists who will get exposure at Mini-Met, Chapin clearly hopes to attract subscribers from the parent company...
...presence captured in random memorabilia-a plastic model of his F-105 fighter plane poised on a living-room shelf, a duffel bag of uniforms at the top of the stairs, a portrait by his wife hung in their bedroom. There are less direct reminders too: a grease-splattered map of Viet Nam on a kitchen wall; a dog-eared volume of an encyclopedia spread open on a table-the subject is Viet...
...combat such views and to map strategy for a new political action, activists in the feminist movement met in Houston last week for the first National Women's Political Caucus convention. The event drew 1,400 delegates from 48 states-government officials, editors, legislators, blacks, Chicanas, young and old, housewives and students. They came in everything from boots to buckskin, from outsized overalls to a flowing Indian sari. They were searching for a common program toward common goals, but at times they lost their way in partisan disputes between Republicans and Democrats. At the end, though, the convention...