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...relevant speeches--illuminates some of the contradictions and ambiguities of the concept of revolution in the present day. Using Tanzanian President Nyerere's definition of revolution as "fundamental change in the conditions under which our people live," the editors of The Harvard Review have put together an excellent compendium of descriptive, analytic, and historical essays...
...discovered." The Warren Commission had an unlimited budget and access to all the investigative talents and tools of the Federal Government. With the help of a full-time staff of 26-mostly legal experts-it published a lucid, tightly written 888-page report that was a compendium of 26 volumes (17,815 pages) of testimony and evidential exhibits gathered over ten months...
...BEGIN? by Rudolph Brasch. An Australian rabbi has collected an intellectual's compendium of trivia dealing with the origins of countless things from trouser cuffs to Caesarean births to soap. The effect is as irresistible as peanuts at a party...
These tidbits, as irresistible as peanuts at a party, are among the hundreds of facts assembled by an engagingly unstuffy Australian Reform rabbi in this intellectual's compendium of trivia. Among his findings...
Australia has become the world's largest producer of lead, the third largest of zinc. It exported $377 million worth of minerals last year and expects to double the figure by 1970. Says an Australian Treasury survey: "No compendium of prospects as they can be seen now can comprehend all the mineral exports likely to be recorded in five or ten years' time...