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...demanding "the return of Gore Hall," the Bunnies produced a map from the Widener archives, showing the College in 1700. According to the map, President John Leverett then owned a "pasture and cornfield" covering most of the present Yard...
MacArthur was not talking about colored pins on a staff officers' war map. He was talking about thousands of human lives-Chinese troops sent in to be slaughtered, a U.S. war-death list that had averaged 245 a week since the war began. But in Washington there was only silence. U.S. policymakers had weighed the question and made their decision: the risk of making war against the Chinese in China was too great; it might bring into the conflict Russian aircraft and Russian submarines...
...limping on canes. They had killed 88 Communists, captured 25. Colonel Lehagre smiled quizzically. Said he: "In another 18 months the war will be over in southern Indo-China. But right now, I think they are gathering again right over here." He pointed to a spot on a map. "And when they do, we will go out after them again and again and again...
Unlike the radar bombsight, which has to "see" its target by means of radar waves, Shoran (Short Range Air Navigation) can put bombs on a target that has not been seen at all. It needs nothing but an accurate map with the target marked. Last week the Air Force announced that it has begun to use Shoran in Korea...
...pulses and echo them back greatly amplified. Apparatus on the plane measures the time it took for the pulses to make round trips to each of the stations. This gives a continuous picture of the airplane's distance from the two stations-and therefore its position on the map. The system is accurate enough to show the position of the plane within 50 feet...