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...members' offices, and electronic voting. New York's Democratic Representative Benjamin Rosenthal, who recently had an efficiency expert study his own office staff's procedure, thought every Congressman should have access to such help. Rosenthal also suggested a central personnel pool for shorthanded Congressmen, a digest of news and editorial comment for Congressmen, regular annual summer vacations...
Dean Monro yesterday hailed the proposal as "the simplest and best digest of everyone's recommendations." He said it was "nothing very radical" and expects that "awkward points" can be worked out. Dean Watson, similarly, said he is "delighted" and expects it to work...
...worldwide push toward updating languages. France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Greece all have recently undertaken or completed such projects, most of them inspired by the Oxford English Dictionary, whose final volume was published in 1928. Even with the aid of IBM computers, which will record and digest words from such great Italian writers as Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Pirandello, Moravia-and Dante -the job is expected to take 50 years...
...endomorphic. Hence I am extroverted and like to be surrounded by people, comfort, food. People who condemn over-eaters are ectomorphic, skinny nervous types, who can neither digest nor enjoy food...
...installed both on the bestseller lists. This one takes his flock past the same datelines-Moscow, Papeete, Lambarene, Brasilia-that the Paar family, trailing minions, visited over the past few years. The writing has the flickering quality of home movies, for which John Reddy, the Reader's Digest staff writer and Paar pal who polishes the maestro's prose, must be held accountable. Paar himself is blameless...