Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Workshop at Tufts University. Holmes is also president of the New England Poetry Club. His most recent book, Writing Poetry was published in June. His other books include Address to the Living Map of My Country, The Double Root and several shorter collections. Holmes has also published in Poetry Harper's Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Nation Kenyon Review, and other periodicals...
...flight to Stanleyville suddenly heard on his radio the voice of the "commander of the Fifth Bicycle Battalion" warning sternly, "Do not violate my air space again or I'll shoot you down!" But in the 47 regional centers where they had been scattered by whirlwind airlifts (see map), the U.N.'s 11,000 troops had no trouble at all keeping the peace...
...pondered Fidel, Che also pondered the objectives of the revolution he was fighting. Out of his own catch-as-catch-can Marxist reading, Che proceeded to map out Cuba's first true, peasant-based social revolution. He plotted total destruction of the old political and economic system, under which U.S. investors owned one-third of Cuba's largest crop (sugar), and the country was run by a tough and crooked former army sergeant, Fulgencio Batista. Che proposed to nationalize industry and agriculture, to reorganize that traditional prop of Cuban political power, the army, and to cut Cuba...
...Bailey and Washington Lawyer Jim Rowe, representing Vice-Presidential Nominee Lyndon Johnson, hurried to Hyannisport for a series of alfresco strategy lessons. Each morning eight thickly padded green chaise longues were wheeled out onto Bobby's lawn and assembled in a circle, along with a long-leashed telephone, maps, charts and other paraphernalia. There Bobby, Jack and their top strategists - Kenny O'Donnell, Larry O'Brien, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith, Bailey and Rowe - began to map out the looming campaign. Bobby and Steve stripped to the waist to absorb the sun along with the strategy...
...regular runs, still found they were able to take only an additional 25,000 commuters. Most of the railroad regulars then fell back on private autos and car pools. Soon many drivers were getting up at sunrise to beat the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the expressways. Others, map in hand, twisted through country roads and city side streets to avoid the crush, often got lost. "Halfway home," sighed one car-pool commuter, "you usually find you've left somebody back in the city...