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...World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, which opened the first U.N. meeting at San Francisco. As the delegates gathered in the old New York City World's Fair Building at Flushing Meadows, they beheld another omen. Dominating the vast, greenish Assembly Hall was an oddly contorted map of the world (in cartographer's lingo: "a north polar azimuthal equidistant projection") which made the U.S. and Canada look relatively normal while the rest of the troubled planet was either upside down or misshapen...
...with the home isles or, in dreaded necessity, with a refugee government in Canada. From Nigeria the girdle could reach east to Kenya, along any of several possible roads, absorb a string of World War II airbases, make a junction with the north-south Cape Town trunk road (see map...
...Ukrainian town after four years in the Army found his house destroyed and his family scattered. After reassembling the remnants of his family, he asked the town authorities for a house. They gave him a slip of paper entitling him to buy an ax and showed him on a map a 100-square-yard plot in a forest near the town. "Make yourself a house," they said. The officer went back to Berlin...
Before a boundaryless map of One World, the 16-months-old United Nations General Assembly met in New York this week to try a few more toddling steps toward peace (see INTERNATIONAL). The atmosphere was heavy with uncertainties after the haggling at Paris...
...someone had blundered. Theirs not to reason why, the students deployed themselves as per instructions to the designated hill. But the sad story of too little and too late was told all over again: map-master Raisz had misread the map...