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...crown of his cap Were the Furies and Fates And an excellent map Of the Dorian States; And in both of his palms They discovered What is common in palms-That is, dates...
With a huge map of Europe on his right and a rack of charts, e.g., of
NATO air strength, on his left. Al Gruenther spoke without notes for 45
minutes, effortlessly rattling off the complex statistics of defense
expenditures, populations and strength estimates, persuasively arguing
that Soviet "smiles, happy talk and receptions" in no way justify a
dilution of Western strength. Items:
...began, the nervousness and hysteria which Stalin demonstrated, interfering with actual military operations, caused our army serious damage . . . When there developed an exceptionally serious situation for our army in 1942 in the Kharkov region ... I telephoned Vasilevsky [Chief of Staff] and begged him: 'Alexander Mikhailovich, take a map and show Comrade Stalin the situation which has developed . . .' We should note that Stalin planned operations on a globe. Yes, comrades, he used to take the globe and trace the front on it ... [But] Stalin didn't want to hear any more arguments on the matter. I telephoned...
Your readers may be interested to know that several of the more recent determinations of earth's size are much closer to the Army Map Service figure than is indicated by your article. For example, a modern Russian determination gives an equatorial radius of 6,378,245 meters [3443.977 nautical miles -TIME, July 22, 1946]. At a 1953 geodetic meeting, U.S.C.&G.S. Mathematician Erwin Schmid announced a revised determination of the equatorial radius, 6,378,240 meters [3443.974 nautical miles], calculated solely from the latest adjustment of our surveys in the U.S. The new Army Map Service results thus...
...singles titles in thirteen.* When she overpowered Britain's Angela Mortimer (6-0, 12-10) in Paris last week to win her 13th, the French women's singles championship, Althea Gibson, 28, flew over the net like a happy starling. In all Althea's long map-girdling season of success, the only woman she had not been able to beat was Angela Mortimer...