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...will take a fairly "posh" word-fancier to pay $47.50 for the economy edition. Prices for buckram and India paper scrape the empyrean. Once, the Webster's Unabridged had the advantage of cheapness over the O.E.D., but now it can vaunt nothing but its relative portability...
Last week the buckram-bound volume that contains the U.S. budget went from the White House to Capitol Hill. Wrapped up in that budget were all the plans and programs of the U.S. for the next fiscal year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith, Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills would all help bring those programs to life. The dew of innocence was still in the eye of the 86th Congress, the fires of hope in its breast. New "approaches" hung high like...
Wherever there were Red army units (and that was almost everywhere in the U.S.S.R. and a dozen other countries) there were solemn festivals. In the huge Central Theater of the Red army in Moscow, the stage was loaded with military notables, their chesty uniforms stiffened with buckram to carry the weight of glittering decorations. Center of attention was Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, new Premier of the U.S.S.R. and longtime top military commissar. The speech of the day was made by the new Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who has a better right than Bulganin to call himself a soldier...
This week the Revised Standard Version was published in the U.S. (Nelson; $6) in a first printing of 1,000,000 copies. A conservative-looking maroon buckram volume on the outside, the new Bible has some surprises for the conservative reader inside. Such familiar Biblical words as "Jehovah" and "Calvary," for example, are nowhere to be found; the editors held them to be medieval usages, without particular justification, and replaced them with "Lord," and "the place which is called The Skull." Such familiar circumlocutions as "And it came to pass . . ." have also disappeared...
...large, buckram-bound volume was published last month by the Department of the Army. The book has illustrations-photographs of 281 men. Most of the faces are young, most of them look as familiar as the boy up the street. Their names read like the telephone directory in any U.S. town-Adams, Anderson . . . Hall-,man, Hamilton . . . Kisters, Knappen-berger . . . Soderman, Specker . . . Zeam-er, Zussman. Photographs of eleven were "not available." Few of these men are famous; all of them are heroes. The 292 men memorialized in the book are the Army's Medal of Honor winners in World...