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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...
...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...
...latest writing was a portrait sketch of the late President Lowell, which appeared in the Dec. 8 issue of the Alumni Bulletin. Hamlen was a long-time friend of President Lowell...
Civilianizing. "What a way to treat the navy!" cried London's jingoist tabloid Daily Sketch. A Daily Mail cartoon showed Admiral Nelson atop his Trafalgar Square roost dressed in top hat, striped trousers and cutaway coat. But Tory anger in Commons was stayed by the realization that Britain could either cooperate or go on cutting off the flow of its lifeblood oil at Suez. Lord Hailsham, quieter in London than he was in Port Said, said: "We will civilianize the whole fleet if necessary...
While Vicky is at his funniest when he is lancing overstuffed politicians, some of his most memorable cartoons are as bit ter as his memories of Nazi persecution. Under a moving sketch of hollow-eyed Hungarian children and sorrowing old women, Vicky (whose parents were Hungarians) last month used as his punch line a quote from Soviet-controlled Radio Budapest: "Fascist and reactionary elements have been crushed...