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...world's oldest known map, which has been missing for years but has not been missed, was relocated yesterday in the basement of the Center for International Affairs by a Harvard sophomore...
Like any young, red-blooded opera impresario, Lawrence Kelly wanted to start his own company. So, with the determined air of a wing commander plotting an air strike, he holed up with a map of the U.S. and a compass to zero in on a likely site. He began by eliminating those cities that already had a company as well as those towns whose proximity would mean strong competition at the box office. Detroit was out because it was too close to Chicago and the climate was not to Kelly's liking; Pittsburgh was no good because...
...rest inside is a bit more predictable, The usual calculated whimsy, the trivia, the place names, are all back making their bids for laughs, (But I did meet a girl who was thrilled that the Lampoon Playboy parody had put Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on the map.) As for the worst offense -- well, the incomparable Max Beerbohm once wrote of W. S. Gilbert that his "one notion of humorous prose was to use as many long words and as many formal constructions as possible -- a most tedious trick, much practiced by other Mid-Victorian writers." Three Lampoon pieces are guilty...
...change was imminent at the other end of the European ideological map. Last week Madrid buzzed with the ru mor that Francisco Franco was about to give his nation a new constitution at last. This week Franco will call an extraordinary session of the Cortes which, later this month, will accept a new "institutional law" and put it to the people in a referendum before year...
...produced the greatest proletarian traffic jam in history. From Tibet to Tsingtao, the roads, rails and airlines of Red China are jammed with Chinese on the move. Most are Red Guards heading to and from Peking to spread the word of the leader's glory. Their road map-passed out on trains, sung on airliners-is a cheap (about 25?), red, plastic-bound copy of Mao's Thought. So massive is the movement that the government has begun to drop a hint to the faithful: get out and walk...