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Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. The novel is overlong (616 pages), and the prose something less than sparkling; but New York Timesman Drury knows his way about Washington. Few readers will need any help finding the fact behind the fiction...
...since its first feverish response to Russia's sweep into outer space. A series of impressive public school reforms and experiments has begun. As the new school year opens, the top education story is a growing campaign to galvanize every talent at every level-a kind of common consent that equality of effort ranks as high on the agenda as equality of opportunity. This week's cover story is a panoramic view of schools in ferment, your guide to what may prove the most rewarding school year in U.S. history...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. The novel is overlong (616 pages) and the prose something less than sparkling, but New York Timesman Drury knows his way about Washington...
FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (2) 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (4) 3. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence ( 1 ) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 5. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (7) 6. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner (5) 7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6) 8. California Street, Busch 9. The Cave, Warren 10. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (9) NONFICTION 1. For 2? Plain, Golden (1) 2. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 3. The Years With Ross, Thurber (4) 4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. New York Timesman Drury's novel about politicking in Washington is sometimes as heavy as a Times thinkpiece, but it provides a dandy guessing game: Taft, Krishna Menon and Truman are recognizable, but who, for instance, is the high-positioned skirt chaser...