Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just because they served steak in the dining halls last night--my piece looked like a topographic map of South America with the Amazon especially tough going--doesn't take away from the fact that around Harvard's kitchens you get a lot of food for thought but little for consumption...
...side of the frontier (see map), the Peruvians have been moving troops, Soviet-built T-55 tanks and American-made armored personnel carriers into burgeoning military bases in the southern border provinces. On the other side, the Chileans, bracing for a possible invasion, are mining the desert, implanting tank traps and building fortifications. While tensions across this sere, sparsely populated frontier have smoldering for nearly a century, the situation lately has become especially volatile as Peru and Chile frantically...
...last two weeks in December can mean anything from catching up on long overdue work to a trip to Acapulco to a 14-day snooze. For the Crimson icemen, it meant five games, a trip to dairy country and a Christmas vacation that required a Rand McNally road map...
...fear of ambush; Polisario fighters as a result roam freely over much of the territory, boastfully but inaccurately declaring it "liberated." The guerrillas, though, have carried the war into both Morocco and Mauritania. Last June Polisario even attempted a mortar attack on the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (see map). Although the guerrillas lost 200 men, including Polisario's founder, Mohammed Wall, 28, in the battle, they consider the shelling of the Mauritanian capital a great victory. They have brought Mauritania close to economic disaster with periodic attacks on the 450-mile rail line, which brings the country...
...starter says softly, and we tear up the trail at top speed, map in one hand, compass in the other. The trail goes dead north, then begins to curve east. Suddenly another trail appears, this one not marked on the map. We are tempted, but keep going. Another hundred meters and we pause, kneel down and take a compass bearing directly into the woods. Now we are sprinting, leaping over logs, crashing through small brush, legs and arms flailing. We try to pace a 200-meter leg but fail, losing the count at the bottom of a hill where...