Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...recent turn of events in Korea, I can't help recalling the warning of Reader A. L. Peake, written in the days of the Pusan perimeter and appearing in a letter to TIME, Sept. 25. He stated: "... The Reds . . . might not want to push us off the map yet; if they wait a few more weeks, we will have brought to Korea the biggest part of our front-line fighting force . . . Then, a real all-out offensive . . . could actually wipe out a major part of our trained and equipped ground forces...
...Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan (see map) which U.N. forces still hold. If the Chinese move in while the allies hold perimeters at Seoul and Pusan, they will expose themselves to the same sort of flanking situation that routed the North Koreans last September...
...briefing room in a former Japanese housing development a mile or so from the harbor, a U.S. major went up to a tactical map and pointed to a series of diminishing arcs around the Hungnam area. Said he: "If they get to this first arc, they'll be able to hit us here with artillery if they have any real long-range stuff. We don't think they have." Then he indicated another arc closer to the port and said, "If they get to here, they'll be able to hit us with regular Chinese artillery." Somebody...
...would "pyramid faster than Florida real estate." With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass, which sold 5,000 copies, put the society on the map...
...could afford to tell the truth: "Plans for a new people's democratic Czechoslovakia were made in Moscow" even before World War II ended. "Stalin in the Kremlin, with ingenious foresight, drew the outlines of a new Czechoslovakia, as well as of a brotherly new Poland, on the map of central Europe. A new government was prepared to take over our new state...