Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magnetism Plus. What was the other guiding factor? It could not be the sun and stars, for pigeons can navigate under clouds. Professor Yeagley considered all the possibilities. While looking at a map which had lines representing the intensity of the earth's magnetism, he noted that the lines were crossed at varying angles by the parallels of latitude. The two sets of lines formed an irregular grid, something like the crossing lines on a sheet of graph paper. Used together, the lines served as a "frame of reference." If pigeons, he reasoned, are sensitive to some factor connected...
...along the route (see map), townsfolk dropped whatever they were doing to watch the tour go by. Fans encouraged and refreshed their favorites in the customary manner: by dumping buckets of water on their heads. In efficient Belgium, fire hoses were used. As the tour approached a town, police immobilized all traffic in the vicinity. Factories shut down. In Strasbourg, the Communist Par ty temporarily suspended its congress. Something like ten million people along the route saw the race...
Pattern in the North. In the South and West the Chinese Government's control was secure. The Government held some three-quarters of the country. But north of the Yellow River* (see map) it was all the Government could do to protect the big cities and keep the main rail lines open. The Chinese Communists, who lacked the strength to take Peiping, Tientsin or Mukden, controlled the countryside of North China and Manchuria. They could, and did, tear up rail lines (sometimes within ten miles of Peiping...
...given a geography exam by Gallup pollsters, and flunked badly. Handed a map of Europe on which countries were outlined but not named, U.S. citizens were asked to tell which was which. The wife of an Illinois school superintendent thought that Germany was France, Austria was Yugoslavia, put Bulgaria in Hungary, Rumania in Czechoslovakia and Poland in Turkey. The average U.S. woman put only five out of twelve European countries in their proper places; the average man got six right. Only one in seven knew where Bulgaria belonged...
Auden is settled for the summer on Fire Island-off New York's Long Island -where he owns a tar-paper-covered shack near a sand dune. On one wall of his littered study Poet Auden keeps an immense map of Alston moor in Cumberland below the Roman Wall, his childhood country, whose limestone quarries, fells and valleys-and mining machinery -have persisted as bleakly beautiful imagery in all his work...