Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...migrants by requiring a one-year residence -normal in most states-before a newcomer becomes eligible for relief payments, and 2) a civic campaign to discourage migration to the city from "all parts of the country and the Caribbean." Puerto Rican children, he said, flashing a sheaf of papers, account for 20% of the juvenile delinquency in the city...
...academic jargon of cloistered professors, the presses have become favorites of U.S. readers. This year the 50 members of the Association of American University Presses will produce 1,300 new books on subjects ranging from art to zoology. In their own field-adult, hardcover nonfiction-universities will account for one out of every four original books in the U.S. and sell them for about $14 million, more than double their income of ten years...
...benefited more than U.S. readers. At the Louisiana State University Press last week, able young (35) Director Donald R. Ellegood, who worked at Oklahoma under Savoie Lottinville, was busy culling a list of some 350 manuscripts that includes something for everyone: biographies of Confederate generals, an eyewitness account of the 18th century Haitian revolution, the secrets of modern hurricane forecasting. Other university presses are ready this fall with a list of impressive books that might never see print without university backing. Harvard University Press (over 100 titles last year) is bringing out the first of four volumes of John Adams...
...life of Napoleon and his retinue on St. Helena is a kind of tragicomic parody of those scenes in Shakespeare where the king moves his court to some enchanted forest to frolic and philosophize. In a graphic, day-by-day account of the exile years, Historian Ralph Korngold reveals the constant bickering and backbiting of the Napoleonic entourage. Napoleon himself, argues Korngold, may have been hounded to a premature death by the erratic restrictions and petty cruelties of the British governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, a fussy, indecisive simpleton...
Surgeon at Arms, by Daniel Paul, with John St. John. Blood, death and capture become moving realities in this British battle surgeon's account of a mission to outflank the Siegfried Line...