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...have often reported to you on the work of TIME correspondents from Rangoon to Boston. This week I would like to show you on the accompanying map how they are spotted in the world's news centers. Twenty-seven news bureaus, all but three of them (Singapore, Beirut, Panama) permanent offices, are the bases from which 69 TIME correspondents range out to cover the most important stories. These correspondents supply the bulk of the material for any issue. Branching from this staff, sometimes reporting to it but more often reporting directly to the editors, is a network...
...service from the Associated Press and the United Press. The press services also handle special queries when they have a man closer to a particular story. Through these two great organizations the work of 3,431 staff correspondents and 32,400 stringers is available to TIME writers. (On this map a circle means that A.P. or U.P., often both have a bureau in the city indicated.) In addition to supplying added facts for many stories A.P. and U.P. are a sort of fire-warning net which, geared to newspaper and radio staffs around the world, spots fast-breaking news...
...unlike radar, which uses radio frequencies). Focused into a narrow beam, the sound pulses are shot out through an underwater transmitter that can turn through 360°. Echoes from underwater objects come back to the transmitter and are displayed on one cathode-ray screen as part of a glowing map that measures distance and direction from the ship. Moving targets can be tracked across the scope as on an ordinary radar screen. Another cathode-ray tube, which measures distance, also helps to identify the nature and exact position of the target...
...After years of work on a "pronunciation map" of the U.S., Professor C. K. Thomas of Cornell University announced that he had found at least one continental divide-a line running from Vermont down the Alleghenies, along the Ohio River, then cutting across Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. If a man comes from east of the line, he will say "fahrest"; from the west, "fawrest." The same goes for "ahrange" and "awrange," "Flahrida" and "Flawrida," "hahrrible" and "hawrrible...
This outburst apparently shook the Reds. Next day, Nam mildly produced a map, 2½ by 4 feet, and passed it across the table. The markings clearly showed that the Reds understood the U.N. requirements. The 38th parallel was in its proper place and so were the present front-line positions, only slightly distorted in the Communists' favor. This week the Reds were still obdurate. But Nam, who had stalked angrily out after an earlier session, was nervously agitated, like a gambler worried by his declining pile of chips...