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Having turned a formidable sounding Encyclopaedia Dictionary of Physics into a sort of bestseller (6,000 sets at $300 each), Maxwell last week brought out a new 15-volume edition of Brit ain's highly regarded Chamber's Encyclopaedia with which he confidently expects to capture some of the 99% of the world market held by U.S. publishers. Eighty percent of Pergamon's output is already sold abroad in 123 countries, including the U.S., which accounts for half of the company's exports. "If there were 50 other firms in Britain doing what we are," boasts...
Shortly after a Chicago restaurant was burglarized one night last week, Policeman Richard Kereta spotted a man running down the street. Kereta collared the suspect when he stopped to urinate under a porch. "I didn't do nothin' and I ain't answering questions," said Danny Escobedo, 28, as he was taken to the police station and plunked into a cell. Escobedo (TIME cover, April 29) well knew his rights: they were first limned in the Supreme Court decision that voided his murder admission in 1964 (Escobedo v. Illinois), and amplified last June when the court applied...
...going to take a helluva gutsy student to stand up to McNamara and say 'no sir those ain't the facts,'" Ansara said. The whole set up of the visit, Ansara continued, is designed to avoid straining McNamara and allow him to overpower small groups of students...
...long (80 minutes), and when the spectator tires of it he can't help noticing what Allen's annotations cannot entirely conceal: the original film. It's terrible. Still and all, Allen & Co. stand to make about 1000% profit on their minuscule investment, and that ain't bean curd...
Brooks Robinson is, next to Willie Mays, probably the greatest clutch player in the game today, and Frank Robinson killed the Dodgers when the Reds won the pennant in '61; but before and after those two there ain't much. Unless you think Big Boog Poweel will be able to hit Sandy Koufax, which...