Word: maps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, the General Assembly approved a plan to internationalize Jerusalem. By its terms the city would become a corpus separatum governed by the U.N.'s Trusteeship Council. The area would embrace the walled Old City, the bustling New City and such nearby holy places as Bethlehem (see map...
...proposed in effect that the U.S. send troops to occupy the prosperous 235-mile-long island. Strategically the most important piece of real estate still outside Western democracy's Pacific Ocean frontier, Formosa lies on the line between three potential sea-air bastions: Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines (see map). In the hands of an Asia-based enemy it would menace U.S. communication lines. But it is a gun which can point both ways. The U.S. could point it at Communist China...
...works include "A Map of Life," "Communism and Man," "Theology and Sanity," and a translation of St. Augustine's "Confessions...
Three such "Model T" air bursts, said the AEC, would tear the guts out of Washington. A perfect three-bomb pattern would pinpoint the Capitol, the downtown-White House district and the brass-heavy Pentagon across the Potomac (see map...
This week Moscow's hordes of subway-riding white-collar workers and bureaucrats were full of stir as workmen put the finishing touches on a new subway line. It is the first segment of a Great Circle line that will intersect the present three spokelike crosstown lines (see map). When the Great Circle is completed, the center of Moscow will have a fine system: a passenger will be able to get from almost anywhere to almost anywhere in the city by changing trains only once...