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...reporting was woven into a cover story by Staff Writer Walter Isaacson, who got out from behind his desk in Manhattan to catch Connally in action at some Northeastern whistlestops. As a native son of Louisiana and former city hall reporter for the New Orleans States-Item, Isaacson is familiar with the eccentricities of Southern politicians. "Their style," he says, "is a stimulating mix of the byzantine and the evangelical." This week, after a year and a half as a Nation writer in New York, Isaacson begins a new assignment as a congressional correspondent in Washington, D.C., thus moving even...
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...doubts appear to be dwindling as a result of some extraordinary probings into what physicists fondly call their nuclear "zoo." Most of the inhabitants of that zoo are subatomic particles dubbed hadrons, a family that includes the familiar protons, pions and K mesons. Even so, hadrons are not the ultimate form of matter. They seem to be composed of still more basic particles called quarks. But how do quarks cling together? Answer: by tossing gluons back and forth among themselves...
These dramatic exits and entrances are described in America Revised (Little, Brown; $9.95), a heavily researched book due out this fall. Its author, Frances FitzGerald, 38, examines America's view of itself as reflected in school history texts going back more than a century. Her conclusion: the once familiar tapestry of American history, long Waspish, pious and upbeat, has been ripped apart and converted into a glum, pluralistic patchwork. America and its view of the past are now changing so rapidly that few American schoolchildren in the future will share any common attitude toward their country's history...
...nine consultants, including one for "learning skills" and one for "values." Such editions are continually revised to keep up with fashions. In 1975 many text houses were so distressed by women's group lobbying that they ordered editors to avoid such terms as "fatherland," and to replace familiar phrases like "the founding fathers" with, simply, "the founders...