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...Yugoslavia went Bonn Correspondent Jim Bell to see Ambassador Kennan. Bell, through the years, has been a constant reader of Kennan's output, visited with him in October to get his views on Moscow's 22nd Party Congress. Bell went back to Belgrade for the cover story, had three separate interviews with Kennan totaling 4½ hours...
...member of the staff of the Harvard College Library since of 1938, Palmer will direct all reader services of Widener, the management of ten floors of book stacks, circulation of some 1,500 books a day for use outside the library, and reading and reference rooms. He will also advice on Lamont's reader services for undergraduates...
...less an issue in its way is that posed by Arthur S. Trace Jr.'s What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't (Random House; $3.95), a chilling comparison of Russian and U.S. textbooks that pegs the vocabulary of Ivan's typical first-grade reader at 2,000 words and Johnny's at 300, owing to the U.S. mystique of "vocabulary control." Equally indignant about U.S. reading deficiencies is Charles C. Walcutt's Tomorrow's Illiterates (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), and it has the added virtue of describing key reading reforms throughout the country. Critics...
...reader of the U.S. Government's good, grey statistics knows, 1947-49 equals 100. But last week the Budget Bureau announced that in January it plans to change the base period for a wide range of indices-most notably the Consumer Price Index-to 1957-59. According to the bureau, indicators lose meaning unless they are based on a period recent enough for most people to remember...
...Super-Americans, by John Bainbridge. Reporter Bainbridge traveled to Texas and with malice aforethought reported exactly what he found there. The result is high social satire, and a welcome capital gain for the reader...