Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first U.S. experiment in metropolitan-area government was test-launched in Florida's Dade County 16 months ago, when voters okayed a single "Metro" charter for Miami (pop. 290,000) and 25 satellite municipalities (see map). Urban experts and harassed civic leaders in other states looked up from desperate struggles with their common problem-how to develop unified plans and services throughout a central city and its independent suburbs-to pray for Metro's success. Foreign specialists came to study Metro as they once studied TVA. But, with no politicians to defend it, the new idea became...
...factory was emptying for the winter. Some 200 million ducks, incubated in millions of prairie potholes and marshes that yield 65% of the continent's waterfowl, began the long flight south. From Canada they will scud at 40 to 50 m.p.h. over the four great fly ways (see map) to winter havens scattered from the southern U.S. to northern Peru. Along the way, millions will fall before the guns...
...sure to improve with time. To do the full job-which may never be needed-37 of them should be in Asia, 24 in North America, six in Europe, seven in Australia, 16 in South America. 16 in Africa, four in Antarctica and 60 on islands (see schematic map with possible locations). In regions where earthquakes are common, the stations should be closer together (625 miles) than in nonseismic areas (1,060 miles...
...final opponent, and the selection committee judged Columbia the gem of the ocean, fit to meet Britain's Sceptre this weekend in the start of the four-out-of-seven series that will be raced alternately over triangular and windward-leeward courses ten miles off Newport, R.I. (see map...
...view, the targets that Red China's gunners worked over were not worth anything like the ammunition expended. Even if all of them fell into Red hands, the Nationalist bastion of Formosa, about 120 miles to the east, would still be screened by the Pescadores Islands (see map). But the Nationalist garrisons of the offshore islands mock Mao Tse-tung on his very doorstep. (Tatan and Erhtan, with a combined area of 143 acres, lie smack in the mouth of Amoy harbor only 2½ miles from shore.) Moreover, since Formosa itself was under Japanese rule from...