Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that a proper adventure story translates the reader instantly from a world that is merely actual-represented by thinning hair and thickening wife-to one that is gloriously real. This putative planet, circumnavigated by Author Jenkins' sea thriller, is the realm of the dead mariner's cryptic map, the deathbed revelation cut off in mid-gargle, the implacable enemy, and the beautiful girl scientist who carries on the quest that killed her father. The story's hero has the sort of face that is weathered by wind, war, and lately by the floodlights of cigarette-ad photographers...
...excitement and urgency showed on a map, one of the most conspicuous places in the U.S. this week would be an edge of northern Utah, hitherto noted chiefly for peaches, sheep and sugar beets. This unlikely region, in Box Elder County north of Great Salt Lake, is boiling with frantic activity. Strange lights glare in the night, making the mountains shine, and a grumbling roar rolls across the desert. By day enormous clouds of steam-white smoke billow up in a few seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these...
...Soviet Union, said Tass, was about to test a series of "more powerful rockets," the first tests to take place between Jan.15 and Feb. 15 in an area of the Pacific 280 miles long by 160 miles wide (see map), 500 miles south of the U.S.'s Johnston Island, 1,300 miles east of the U.S. trust-territory Marshall Islands, 1,000 miles southwest of the new 50th state of Hawaii. Radio Moscow warned the world's shipping to keep out of that part of the Pacific or risk getting hit by the Red rockets' "penultimate stage...
...quickly fed into computers to program missile shots to preset targets. Even while submerged, George Washington can receive messages, and if war should come, she would be able to fire her 16 Polaris missiles at 16 separate targets from below the surface depths within a few minutes (see map). "After that," says Skipper Osborn, "our war is over, and we go home." Three Years Ahead. The technological war to get the Polaris weapon systems built got started just three years ago with an encouraging kick from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Said Burke to Rear Admiral William Raborn...
...network (4,000 miles) in the world. The Trans-Canada pipeline, finished in 1958, put Ontario and Quebec markets within reach of the rich, new Alberta gasfields. By the end of 1960, the last scattered 130 miles of the country's first transcontinental highway - which was only a map in 1940 - will be paved and ready for traffic. "The '50s completed our unity from east to west," says Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton...