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Purpose of Nehru's speechmaking was to ask for calm and reasonable response to the implications of a report of his States Reorganization Commission, which has toiled for two years at redrawing India's map. The 29 states which now make up India are an administrative jumble whose boundaries bear little relation to the languages of their people or administrative needs of government. Some states have strong local governments, others are virtually run from New Delhi; some were shaped by the British, others by old princely fiefs and tribal conflicts...
Whenever Bradley Smith checked the pins on his map and made this sort of announcement, his family knew it was time for him to shoulder his camera and set off on another expedition into the Northwest...
...Widener maps bear the tales of adventurers and explorers as well as that of modern explorers. A colonial expedition led by Filson charted parts of Kentucky after George Clark quieted the Shawnee. The map displays Daniel Boone's comment: "an exceeding good performance." Another early American map, drawn by John Smith in 1614, locates and names Plymouth Rock six years before the Pilgrims "found...
...Map Room's stock of American charts is complemented by the more modern collection of the Institute of Geographical Studies. Twentieth century surveyors, colonial mapmakers, as well as ancient French, Italian and Korean cartographers all contribute toward making the room in Widener worthy of a rainy afternoon visit. Those who are neither scholars nor tourists will enjoy the colored pictures...
...Argentina's third biggest city (pop. 350,000). Two Gloster Meteor jet fighters flown by air-force pilots rained down leaflets declaring that the city "has been conquered again for God and the fatherland." Rebel sailors took over the naval bases at Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano (see map). Army garrisons seized control of the inland barracks towns of Arroyo Seco and Curuzu-Cuati...