Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of an hour between lunch at the Riesmans' and punch with the populace in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room, Tynan ranged, on request, all over the theatrical map. Discussing playwrights unjustly neglected on the commercial stage, he nominated Brecht first of all, added Ibsen, Pirandello and Wedekind, and commented that "Giraudoux has been not neglected, but so often misinterpreted that it's worse than neglect." Jean Genet to Tynan is "a natural, who shouldn't be imitated... He's a bad model but an interesting artist"; Eugene Ionesco is "bright as a button...
Langer relates with a good deal of pride the map room rigged up for the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff by OSS. Still operating today, "it is one of the most impressive things to come out of the war," according to Langer. Using the latest methods in cartography, these clay relief maps with exaggerated elevations and terrain markings in paint proved most helpful to the armchair generals...
...Armstrong's proposed change would substitute a six-day summer session on weapons and map reading for the present half course in the Fall of Freshman year. This intense course would be given at the College immediately before ROTC juniors would leave for their normad Summer Camp training...
Simple geography (see map) explained it. During the early '60s, when Russia may hold a temporary lead in numbers of intercontinental missiles, NATO's IRBMs based in England and Italy, later perhaps in Turkey, will cover enough targets in Russia to bridge the gap between less effective SAC bombers and rising numbers of U.S.-based ICBMs. Perhaps even more important, possession of missiles by NATO nations (for the time being the U.S. controls the atomic warheads) gives them a sense of participation in their own defense in the missile...
Vanguard has proved so regular, and its orbit can be charted so exactly, that it has been used to plot, with an accuracy never before possible, the exact position of oceanic islands. In the past, islands were mapped by celestial observations whose accuracy depended on the establishment of an exact vertical by gravity. Because of uncertainties about the earth's shape, this can be done precisely only at the poles. So the Army Map Service sets up mobile tracking stations on various islands. When Vanguard I passes overhead, the trackers determine its bearing at an exact time, in microseconds...