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Died. William Benton, 72, former Democratic Senator from Connecticut and publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; in Manhattan. Benton helped work his way through Yale as a high-stake auction-bridge player, later gave up a Rhodes scholarship and disappointed family hopes for a ministerial career to become a salesman, then an advertising copywriter. In the firm he established with Chester Bowles, he pioneered in radio advertising and programs that used studio audiences, and retired a millionaire from Benton & Bowles at 35. In 1943, as a vice president of the University of Chicago, he acquired the faltering Encyclopaedia Britannica from Sears...
...rules defining admissible trial evidence have been built piecemeal over the years until they now resemble a cross between the Talmud and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Each rule was usually added for a specific reason, but they vary from state to state, from one of the 93 federal districts to another, even, according to the judge's discretion, from courtroom to courtroom. All too often, the complexity actually impedes a court's efforts to dispense justice. Last week, exercising its administrative authority over the federal judicial system, the Supreme Court issued a 45-page set of uniform rules...
...evidence of Young Winston, Foreman mistook this commission for a knighthood. The film that he and Director Attenborough (Oh What a Lovely War) have whittled out of all the dispatches, memoirs and histories is antiseptic and servile, as empty of conflict as a biographical entry in the Britannica. The movie even employs an offscreen journalist, whose task it is to badger Young Winston (Simon Ward), his father Lord Randolph (Robert Shaw) and American mother (Anne Bancroft) with indelicate inquiries. "What precisely was the nature of your husband's last illness?" the journalist sneers from behind the camera, adding after...
...quarrelling long enough to earn passage money home. The players, who have blown their own opening curtain, introduce themselves and then proceed with their financial backer's nearly impossible assignment: an improvisation of "The History of Man." Their irreverent rendition of civilization, more 1066 and All That than Encyclopedia Britannica, bumps comically along, but the players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second act. This time the company attempts Man's rites of passage, and as the actors become engrossed in their story, they mellow...
...will Japan's threatened partnership with the U.S. also survive? There is a communications gap between the two nations that is wide and getting progressively wider. Americans are more to blame for this than Japanese, according to Frank Gibney, Tokyo-based executive vice president of Encyclopaedia Britannica. In the October issue of Foreign Affairs, Gibney regrets that "behind the textiles and transistors, the American, so relatively sophisticated about the changing situations of Britons, Italians or Russians, sees in the Japanese the same 25-year-old image which American soldiers originally brought back from the occupation days: smiling, polite little people...