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Horace Walpole's correspondence, of course. No one knows it better than Lewis, a remarkably dedicated scholar who has kept the extraordinary project going since its start. As Yale and Lewis celebrated the undertaking's 40th anniversary last week, the edition stood at 37 three-inch-thick dark blue volumes. When the 50th and last volume is published (probably some time in 1978), the edition will contain, with meticulous annotation and indexing, 7,000 letters written or received by Walpole, the witty dilettante and social chronicler of 18th century England...
...Alan Bean dropping the most: 8½ lbs. There was also a deterioration of muscle tone, marked by loss of more than an inch in the circumference of the crew's calves. Yet most of these changes took place during the first half of the flight. By the 40th day, the weights of the astronauts had stabilized...
Although its population of 15 million ranks only 40th in the world, Taiwan last year climbed into 20th place among all trading nations, with a giant 45% increase in its foreign commerce, to $5.9 billion (substantially larger than the foreign trade of the People's Republic of China). Its gross national product jumped 12% last year, the fastest rise in all Asia, and average family income reached $1,500, a figure exceeded among Asian countries only by Japan and Singapore. Recently seven Taiwanese trade missions were scouting for additional commercial exchanges with Western countries and swallowing nationalist pride...
...other Bruins's goals were scored by Fred O'Donnell and Johnny Bucyk, who got his 40th of the campaign...
...week-long 40th International Eucharistic Congress, dubbed a "spiritual Olympics," was notable for its liturgical boldness, but its ventures into the discussion of social problems were somewhat less original. A variety of seminars simply belabored the familiar problems of ecology and ecumenism. As for the aborigines, a number of tribal delegates to the congress walked out of a special seminar on aborigines when recommendations opposing racial discrimination were eliminated from the conference report. The tribal people, they said bitterly, had been brought to the congress as "exhibition niggers...