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President-elect Kubitschek is not the first to discover how well Bob Chapin's charts and maps can clarify a subject, from geography or medicine to economics or government. Among the reprint requests that come to my office each month, many ask permission to use TIME'S charts and maps. Since Chapin joined our staff in 1937, his work has been reproduced by foreign governments, the U.S. State Department, Air Force, Army, Navy, numerous universities, and publishers of textbooks and encyclopedias. At the moment he is devoting his spare " time to a four-color map in global perspective...
...Aswan Dam (see map) would create the world's largest man-made lake, three times as long as Hoover Dam's Lake Mead and with a capacity of 105 million acre-feet of water. It would multiply Egypt's electric-power supply eightfold and irrigate 2,000,000 new acres, expanding Egypt's farmland by 30% and the national income by 25%. At $1.3 billion for the dam and irrigation works, the cost, reckoned at $650 per acre of new irrigated land, is a bargain by comparison with some projects in the U.S. West...
...long as Amateur Meteorologist Harry S. (for Swinomish)* Truman occupied the White House, he was the capital's first-served recipient of the daily map issued by the U.S. Weather Bureau...
...stack he found on his desk each morning, he would first plow through the fronts, temperatures and meandering isobars, check his own predictions against the experts' forecasts. In Kansas City last week, Truman confided that, although it is now impractical for the bureau to send him the big maps he used to fuss with, he "sure would like to get them" again. Weatherman Truman sided with the much-maligned experts, too. Asked why Kansas City had been blanketed by an unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled: "If you had looked at the weather map, you would have...
...North Bergen, N.J., Superintendent of Schools Walter A. Miller Jr. reported to the board of education that George Scheuermann, 80-year-old chief truant officer, appointed to the post in 1910, has not been showing up for work, concluded soberly: "Our investigation shows that he is not the best map...