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...have invented everything from the steam engine to radar, also originated baseball-according to the Soviet magazine Smena, a publication of the Young Communist League. Beizbol, said Smena last week, is an "imitation" of lapta* which "was played in Russian villages before the United States was on the map...
Four years ago, Moore, now 41, entered the first big deal to put him all over the map: he merged with a Southwest bus line owned by Texas Tycoon Clint Murchison (TIME, July 21, 1947) and with another line, owned by the Santa Fe Railroad, which had routes in a dozen Midwest and Western states. (Murchison still owns 26% of Continental; the Santa Fe and Moore's original group own the rest...
...region was well worth a look: the rugged, isolated mountain country spanning the Russian-Turkish border and stretching eastward to the Caspian Sea may be the strategic key to the whole troubled Middle East. This land (see map) is Kurdistan. It is split up among five sovereign nations (Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq), but in the minds of the 4,000,000 fierce Kurdish tribesmen who live there, it is one country. It lies like a great, clumsy sickle over the Middle East, the handle anchored in the mountains near the Persian Gulf, the top of the blade resting...
...radio receivers, two transmitters and connections to ten more' transmitters spotted around the airport. It is also equipped with the newest wrinkle in radar control: the A.S.D.E. (Airport Surface Detection Equipment), which looks not up but down, and displays on its broad scope a living, moving map of every detail on the huge field (4,900 acres...
...able to get about on crutches, and took a wartime desk job in Washington, where he helped map postwar plans for the Petroleum Industry War Council. When the Government-built Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines were declared surplus property at war's end, Ryan formed U.S. Pipe Line to bid on them. He lost out to a higher bid from Texas Eastern Transmission, which now uses them for natural gas. But Ryan was convinced that there was still a big need for a transcontinental line, and decided to build...