Word: better
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, its topflight press has published 426 books, ranging from the influential Plowman's Folly (340,000 copies sold) to last week's Athens in the Age of Pericles, the first of an intriguing series on great cities. Oklahoma's recent music books make it better known in Milan and Bonn than many a famed name on Manhattan's publishers' row. "The world is full of audiences," says Savoie Lottinville, "and we look to the whole...
...jacket designs. Last winter Wieck published the first Russian-language edition of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago in the Western Hemisphere and sold an amazing 15,000 copies, is following this week with a collection of Pasternak's poems in English that is likely to sell even better. Says Publisher Wieck: "There isn't a strand of ivy on our building...
Died. Dr. Abraham Flexner, 92, educator who began a lifelong fight for better education by issuing a sensational report (1910) on the condition of U.S. medical schools that caused half of the schools to shut down, the other half to overhaul their curriculums, as a member of the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation cajoled multimillions out of wealthy moguls to reorganize American medical education, founded (1930) Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and persuaded Dr. Einstein to leave Germany to become one of its first members; in Falls Church...
...square and compact (195 Ibs., 5 ft. 9 in.) as a Corvair, the new car marks the fulfillment of a 15-year dream; for that long, off and on, he has been trying to produce a rear-engine car. Says Ed Cole jubilantly: "If I felt any better about our Chevy Corvair, I think I'd blow...
...radiator, does away with overheating and freezing, needs no antifreeze. Because the engine is aft, and combines there with the transmission and drive gears, there is no transmission hump in the floor. Because the front is light, Chevy says the car is easy to steer without power steering, gets better traction and braking...