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...quite easy to make a map. Even if you can't draw. Simply sketch in a few lines on a piece of paper, identify some important intersections and checkpoints, and that's it. For indicating directions or the location of a place, such a map will probably serve as well as the Esso variety from the local gas station. Maybe even better, since it will be less cluttered with irrelevant material...
...basic consideration about all such maps is the utilitarian function. We use them because we want to know where we are, or where we are going to. Rarely, if ever, does the map give any indication of what the land itself really looks like. It merely relates places to other places...
...many professional cartographers, however, this is not enough. In their maps, they want to show the actual configuration of the territory. To give these true pictures of the earth's surface, cartographers do not have to rely on some color scheme, with different colors representing different heights. With sufficient time, skill, and patience, they can actually sketch into the map the various mountains, valleys, and other land formations...
Discussing this state of affairs with a legislative committee, one Homer Ludwick, executive secretary of the Greater North Dakota Association, made his point by exhibiting a children's jigsaw-puzzle map of the U.S. Sure enough, the symbols on the North Dakota puzzle piece were a spear of grain and a thermometer showing a low of- 45°. Furthermore, people on the outside were always talking about a "blizzard sweeping out of North Dakota." Something, Ludwick demanded, has got to be done to counter all this bad publicity...
...before Gomulka for him to doubt that the Russians would be glad to return in strength. He maneuvered in two directions. First he appealed for full support for his "National Unity Front," emphasizing that "to cross out our party's candidates is to cross out Poland from the map of European states." He insisted that Poland had to be Communist now: "The fate of Poland, its independence and security . . . are bound up with the camp of socialism." In fear of non-Communist strength, he demanded that some candidates, notably Socialist Edward Osubka Morawski, onetime Prime Minister (1945-47), withdraw...