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Scrabbling. His greatest efforts were flung at Moscow's flanks (see map, p. 24). Starting from a line (Nov. 17), the strongest previous blows of which had been struck directly opposite Moscow, he skirted south of the hard core of resistance at Tula to drive straight east as far as Skopin; then cut south of another hard core at Kalinin to drive east to Dmitrov. His intention seemed to be to develop a huge encirclement of the capital...
...problems the war has thrown into relief based on the direct evidence of the last twenty years, avoiding as much as possible hypothetical reasoning about the unpredictable future. The chance that the group has is to understand the forces that will make up the new world, not to map its contours. If it realizes its limits, the Council may give real perspective to the issues we now see under our noses...
...Mapping the Unseen. Land never seen by human eyes is now being mapped by its photographed reflection on the moisture-filled sky above, said Geographer Paul Siple. Flying over an unexplored coast, the scientists' plane reached the limit of its range, was forced to turn back from an inviting horizon. Distant bays and points, they noticed, were reflected in the sky. And because the reflecting moisture layers were higher than the plane, they clearly outlined the coastal pattern well below the flyers' horizon. Though observed before in polar regions, this phenomenon has never until now been trusted...
...many students of American history know that the river was named by Prince Charles himself when John Smith presented a map to him, asking him to bestow names on all the landmarks? How many have heard the story of Goody Sherman's sow and its effect on our history, of the launching of the frigate "Constitution" at the mouth of the river, of the annual income of 100 pounds given to Harvard from the tolls collected on the bridges across the Charles? These and many other chapters in the story of the river are recounted by Mr. Tourtellot with considerable...
...twelve bases (see map,p. 90) are at Amapá, Belém, Sao Luiz, Camocim, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife, Maceió, Bahia. Seven are land ports, five sea. (Pan Am is still negotiating for another land base at Bahia.) At each project, 500 to 800 men are at work...