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...duties, was promoted to First Vice Premier and elevated to vice-chairmanship of the Communist Party (there are five other Vice Chairmen). The appointment accelerated Teng's spectacular rise from utter disgrace during the Cultural Revolution (when he was branded "the No. 2 capitalist reader," after Lui Shao-chi) and gives him an official position that accords with the great power he wields. Many observers feel now that Teng has moved to first in line to succeed Chou, or at the premier's death possibly even...
...Reader's Digest is about to make its own contribution to the coverage of Topic A with what it calls a "unique new series of educational messages about the American economic system." The first of twelve monthly installments appears in the February issue. Judging by the initial offering, released last week, the only unique feature of the enterprise is the unusual marriage of editorial and advertising interests that conceived...
...immense story that Richard Collier (The City That Wouldn 't Die, The Sands of Dunkirk) attempts to tell. He has selected perhaps the only popular method possible: a compact narrative out of which the reader may pull facts and anecdotes as if from an endless Pandora's box Of Kleenex...
...Beast), Brooks lives quietly in Beverly Hills. When he is not working on a script he works on his friends ("If he's not feeding you," says one of them, "he's telling you what kind of car or clothes to buy"). He is still a passionate reader, especially of 19th century Russian novels: "My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you goddam genius...
...upside down. They are the volumes which mainly add up to a series of short answers-tomes like the Guinness Book of World Records or the Baseball Encyclopedia. Seven hundred twenty-three home runs; 895 miles below sea level-these are the replies such works elicit from the reader. The rest is merely a salaam to accuracy and arcana. Joining the shelf of unique reference books is another first: the first Book of Firsts by Patrick Robertson. A British civil servant, indefatigable researcher and humorist very much manque, Robertson has highly individual criteria for celebrity...