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...political platform-from someone wearing a pin-striped suit, Brooks Brothers' rep tie and wing-tipped shoes? Until recently, a large majority of Americans would have answered yes. The peacock in psychedelic tie, screaming plaid suit and patent-leather pumps was hard-pressed to give away a road map. Suddenly, however, public opinion on men's wear seems to be swinging sharply toward the splashy...
...Through the Years. Moving to sterner stuff (our national anthem, the First Amendment and Rudyard Kipling's ode to the governing class: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs"), Uncle Sam then opines that the King James Bible is the best "road map to travel by through this world." Finally he pays tribute to his wife Margaret, declaring: "I've had the same girl walking beside me for 49 years and she's never made a misstep during all that time...
...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...
Researchers Isabel Lenkiewicz and Adrianne Jucius compile all the information for the maps and charts. Lenkiewicz majored in cartography and geography in college but stresses that "there are no schools where you can really study journalistic cartography. It's much more important to be interested in a wide variety of subjects than to know how to draw a map." Jucius and Lenkiewicz also deal with telephone callers requesting special geographical information. One caller posed a question that no one minded answering: "Are you the guys who make complicated things simple...