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...Kent School alumnus can tell you that the President's "I have a map," [showing Nazi conquest plan for South America] is a variation of an old, old refrain...
Newark people did what city dwellers always do when faced with the inexplicable: they called the police. The police department had no map of Newark's sewer system. A sergeant and six patrolmen entered the sewer, carrying ropes, flashlights, a portable telephone, a Tommy gun. Under East Orange, four miles away, they were driven back by sewer gas. Next morning, twelve hours after the cow was last seen, two sewer employes heard moos coming from a manhole, climbed 20 feet underground, and there she was. Waving flashlights, crying "So boss," they backed the baffled animal through the echoing pipes...
BERLIN--German shock troops were reported officially today to have captured Kerch and 101,600 of the Russians defending it, and military spokesmen said the Germans might strike on across the Korchenski Straits into the Caucasus on the momentum of their present drive, without waiting to map up Crimoa...
...map of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics appears on the next two pages. Prepared from new source material, it shows important features missing from most available maps, for example: the rail line between Guriev and Orsk, all but completed by 1941; the railway link between the Archangel-Moscow line and the Kotlas-Kirov line, just completed. Contrary to the general impression, the 93% of the U.S.S.R. still held by the Russians is rich in natural resources, adequately machined...
...Reuben Fleet's office, overlooking his private patio, a map hangs on the wall. It is labeled, with appropriately concise grandeur: The World. To Fleet's pilots, the world is all cross-country territory, and crossing it is all in the day's work...