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...most affected knew nothing about it, there was Dig news for babies this week. Clattering off the presses was a revised version of the gospel by which half a U.S. generation has been raised: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5; Pocket Books, 50?). To the original edition, which has sold more than 9,000,000 copies since 1946, Author Spock has added some 100 pages. The gist of his revisions and additions reflects the changing climate of the past decade: parents ought to be more permissive toward themselves...
...SECRET WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, by Helen Augur (Duell, Sloan & Pearce -Little, Brown; $4.75), details Franklin's efforts to supply the American colonies under the nose of the world's greatest maritime power...
Thus does famed Pediatrician Benjamin Spock describe his own childhood in his new book, Feeding Your Baby and Child, written with Nutritionist Miriam E. Lowenberg (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.75). Young Ben Spock's individual difficulties with food were the commonest kind: he was "something of a feeding problem," "very squeamish about lumps in cereal and scum on cocoa," and could not eat summer squash for 35 years because his mother forced it down him at the age of five...
HIGHWAY OF THE SUN, by Victor W. von Hagen (320 pp.; Duell, Sloan & Pearce-Llttle, Brown; $6), describes an expedition undertaken in 1952 to retrace the famous Inca roads of the west coast of South America. A vivid and frequently fascinating mixture of history, anthropology and archaeology which sharply restores an ancient civilization...
GHOST ON HORSEBACK, THE INCREDIBLE ATATURK (408 pp.)-Ray Brock-Duell Sloan & Pearce...