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...best are The World Book En cyclopedia, which has dominated the grade-school market in recent years, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Britannica Junior Encyclopaedia. Those three now face strong competition from the New Book of Knowledge, which Grolier, Inc., has just completed after spending nine years and $7,000,000. It retains only the name of Grolier's famed earlier set, which was designed more for broad-subject browsing than for detailed, focused information...
Enticing Openings. The prices range from Book of Knowledge's $199.50 for a 20-volume set to World Book's $183.30 for 20 volumes, Compton's $179.50 for 15 volumes and Britannica Junior's $149.50 for 15 volumes. All tend to emphasize subjects found in school curriculums and each tries to use a vocabulary suitable to the grade at which the subject is most apt to be taught. Britannica and Book of Knowledge are more directly aimed at elementary school children, while the other two are more useful in high school...
...sentences are short, relatively flat, but it covers more subjects than the other sets. Britannica has large type, the shortest, most oversimplified articles, the fewest illustrations and a dry factual style. Compton's writing is lively and it covers such child-intriguing topics as magic and fairies but more prosaic topics are often overdone. A child has to work through nine pages to learn about the U.S. Postal service...
...into the Learn-A-Tron, then read the questions and check the child's answers. Example: one picture shows three geometric shapes, with the underline: "Which is the triangle?" The set, now used in some Head Start programs, will be sold door-to-door this fall along with Compton's Encyclopedia. Though overpriced, First Adventures can help parents explain to the child, in terms that he can understand, some ideas that he should have by the time he starts school...
...when he showed up in London's fleshpotty parish. Swinging through a third week of his crusade in Blighty, the evangelist had planned an hour's walk through Soho, but a mob of 2,000 zealots swarmed all over him just across the way from the Old Compton Street Cinema (current attraction: Orgy at Lil's Place). A stripper named Brigitte St. John screamed: "Billy, what do you think of my miniskirt?" and flung herself onto his car. As the reverend rode out of the bedlam, an aide was murmuring: "We're lucky to get away...