Word: britannica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quoted below is a section from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which will correct the misconception of Artemis of Ephesus you printed in a caption [Dec. 13]. "The usual figure of the Ephesian Artemis, which was said in the first instance to have fallen from heaven, is in the form of a female with many breasts, the symbol of productivity or a token of her function as the all-nourishing mother." Ostrich eggs indeed...
...Xanadu did Kubla Khan"-At his best, Updike is able to slip unobtrusively out of light verse into something more barbed. The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells him that, except for the elephant and the giraffe, man holds his heart higher above the ground than any other animal...
After months of rumor, FCC Chairman Newton Minow resigned last week. He is leaving his job to go back to Chicago as the executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica. To replace him, President Kennedy picked E. William Henry, 34, FCC commissioner only since October and now the youngest chairman in the history of the commission...
...kidnap her for ransom. The trio lives it up globally on the loot before coming to rest in a desert outpost of empire where a bean-brained colonel (Cyril Ritchard) and a versatile private (David Wayne) in Bedouin regalia, a la T. E. Lawrence, dizzily keep the pax Britannica...
...future scientific team tomfoolery, might I suggest book burning? Records established in this test of intellect are: encyclopedia ten minutes (Britannica, Volume P), the Talmud twelve minutes, Winnie the Pooh five minutes. Prevalent textbooks may serve as igniters. Paperbacks are hardly sporting. ELIZABETH TAYLOR American Embassy Lima, Peru...