Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME'S map and chart department recognizes no boundaries. It is located in a room filled with bedspread-size charts, atlases as big as coffee tables and shelves full of materials dealing with such diverse subjects as tennis elbow, wine prices and the geography of the moon. "We try to focus on the main point and dramatize it symbolically," says Jere Donovan, who heads the department and has been a TIME cartographer since...
...updated maps of the Arab-Israel war in this week's World section, Donovan worked from files sent to him by TIME correspondents, who could be no more precise about the location of the front lines than were the Arab and Israeli briefing officers in rear areas. "A map has to be continuously nourished until it becomes a useful tool," he explains, "and, like a written story, revised until it makes sense...
Both Donovan and Hortens depend on Joseph Arnon, who also was a map maker-for the British-sponsored survey of Palestine, and subsequently Israel, from 1942 to 1956. Within a few months after Arnon joined TIME 13 years ago, he introduced the time-saving technique of hand-setting type on maps and charts, which replaced the hand-lettering process...
...People's Assembly (see box page 29). "No matter what happens in the desert, there has been a victory that cannot be erased," said Sadat. "According to any military standard, the Egyptian armed forces have realized a miracle. The wounded nation has restored its honor; the political map of the Middle East has changed...
...military historians will long pause to examine and study the operation carried out on Oct. 6. The risk was enormous and the sacrifices were grave. But the results of the first six-hour battle of our war were magnificent. Our wounded nation has restored its honor and the political map of the Middle East has been changed...