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...SILENT SKY by Allan W. Eckert. 243 pages. Little, Brown...
...along the bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...
...despite all the expansion, Allan Cartter, vice president of the American Council on Education, reckons that only 17% of the nation's college libraries meet the 100,000-volume standard that is considered minimum for good undergraduate instruction. Only 25 graduate schools, moreover, can boast the 1.5 million volumes considered minimal by the council. In all, says Cartter, only two dozen academic libraries are "really adequate." Among the best: Harvard's libraries (7,245,000 volumes), followed by those of Yale (4,703,000), Illinois (3,748,000), the University of California at Berkeley (2,956,000), Cornell...
...past year has consisted of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and 94 pages of The Group, even the lip-moving fellow commuter who mumbles his way through a Leon Uris novel is someone to be regarded with awe. The nonreading executive often feels like an Edgar Allan Poe character who is slowly but surely being sealed off from the rest of the world by a wall of unread books. At the wall's foundation are the Pickwick Papers, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, Plato's Dialogues, Henry James, Boswell's Johnson, and countless other classics...
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. In Allan Lewis' comedy, Anne Baxter is a widow who falls in love with a man from the State Department (Gene Raymond). To make things cozier, her daughter is in love with his son. Dennis, Mass.; Ivoryton, Conn.; Wineland, Ont.; Ogunquit, Me.; Skowhegan...