Word: britannica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockefeller for the New York governorship in 1962. While the Rome post might be good for a lot of Italian-American votes, F.D.R. Jr. has almost certainly decided not to take-at least for a while-an Administration job. In that case, the next choice for Rome is Encyclopaedia Britannica Chairman William Benton, the onetime Connecticut Senator and big-time Kennedy campaign contributor...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...quite a way from Arkansas, and particularly from long-embattled Little Rock, to the scholarly Chicago offices of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But Pulitzer Prizewinner Harry Scott Ashmore, 44, is about to make the trip...
...segregationist riots. Two years later Ashmore went to work for the Fund for the Republic, was commissioned by the Ford Foundation to study how to make the press more self-responsible. Last week he took the $50,000-a-year job as editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. As EB's 19th-editor, Ashmore replaces Walter Yust, who died last February after 22 years...
...continuous examination of the press's strengths and weaknesses. As a man who has long believed that "journalism should serve as a two-way bridge between the world of ideas and the world of men," Harry Ashmore will probably find many bridge-building opportunities on the Encyclopaedia Britannica...