Word: maps
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...holiday. Fostoria, a town of 17,000 that until Rita Ratchen's sighting was best known for the Fostoria Shade & Lamp Co., a fine glassworks that burned in 1895, went under the glare of world attention. "Yes," the Review Times wrote on Aug. 21, "Fostoria is on the map...
...Israeli government. Seven months later, in November 1982, another entrepreneur completed a 326-room, $20 million hotel at Taba. The builder, Eli Papouchado, knew that ownership of the land was disputed, but says he went ahead with government approval. Israel bases its claim to Taba on a 1906 Turkish map that delineated the border between Egypt and Palestine, which was then a province of the Ottoman empire. According to that document, the line ran close to three palm trees that still exist. The Egyptian counterclaim hinges on a 1915 map drawn up by British military surveyors, including T.E. Lawrence...
...Israelis reject the 1915 version, claiming it was faked by the British in order to give them a pleasant view of the port of Aqaba, now part of Jordan. In fact, say the Israelis, the British blurred the issue quite literally by marking the border on the 1915 map with a very thick pencil. But if the Israelis had a claim to Taba, reply the Egyptians, why did they make no attempt to retain it when they overran and then withdrew from the Sinai following the 1948 and 1956 wars? Papouchado favors a Solomonic solution, suggesting that the two countries...
...from Spokane to the affluent Palos Verdes Peninsula early this year, had been licensed to fly for six years but had logged only 231 hours in the air, most of them in Washington's relatively uncrowded skies. On the fateful Sunday morning, Kramer reportedly bought an up-to-date map of the terminal control area that surrounds LAX. In effect at all major airports, the TCA, often described as an upside-down wedding cake, is a restricted area; planes must receive permission from an air controller to enter it. The unusually complex Los Angeles TCA has a uniform ceiling...
...star of the Christian Broadcasting Network, is winning more attention at the moment, in part because of the novelty of his latest cause. Last week he did well enough & in the first round of Michigan's convoluted delegate-selection process to put himself firmly on the G.O.P. presidential map. The results hardly added up to the "absolutely amazing victory" that Robertson quickly claimed. Yet he made a more than respectable showing in the number of his supporters who won election as delegates to county conventions, much better than anyone would have expected even a few months ago from a preacher...