Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hartford has this unique kind of collection largely because in the art market it is outgunned by Boston and New York. Although it is the oldest incorporated U.S. public art museum (founded 1842), it had only provincial rating until J. Pierpont Morgan's bequest put it on the map in 1917 with handsome bronzes, silver and porcelain, including the largest collection of 18th century Meissen figurines in the U.S. A surprise $2,000,000 in 1927 from Hartford Banker Frank C. Sumner ("He used to drive out in a purple Rolls-Royce to see the Hartford Chiefs play baseball...
...flowing in from the Blue Nile. Already, more than 25% of the Gezira tract is blooming-a sort of California Imperial Valley development in the midst of the parched Sudanese plains. A Sudanese proposal to expand the Gezira development by another dam on the Blue Nile at Roseires (see map) has met with violent opposition by Egypt. For years Egypt and the Sudan have worked under an agreement that gives Egypt twelve-thirteenths of the Nile's flow, the Sudan the remainder. Egypt completely controls the Jebel Auliya Dam 450 miles inside Sudanese territory, keeps careful watch...
Conquest: Alone with the universe, the astronomer peered into the eyepiece of the telescope that towered through the observatory roof and spied on the moon. His voice echoed in the empty chamber. "Now, I note about twelve impact craters, and the largest of these I shall mark on the map with an A." said Dutch-born Dr. Gerard Kuiper head of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory. By such sharply focused glimpses of scientists at work, Conquest (CBS) started to live up to its promise as a $1,000,000 series of ten science programs that will stretch...
...this detail of mosquito behavior that the World Health Organization and other international bodies, plus 60 governments, are now basing a $500 million blitz campaign to wipe malaria off the world's disease map within ten years...
...getting around the Antarctic by land is still quite a trick. Last week New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, arrived at the South Pole after a 1,200-mile journey by tractor from the British base at Scott Station on the Ross Sea (see map). He made it with only one drum of gasoline left, enough for 20 miles of travel...