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...Xanadu did Kubla Khan"-At his best, Updike is able to slip unobtrusively out of light verse into something more barbed. The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells him that, except for the elephant and the giraffe, man holds his heart higher above the ground than any other animal...
After months of rumor, FCC Chairman Newton Minow resigned last week. He is leaving his job to go back to Chicago as the executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica. To replace him, President Kennedy picked E. William Henry, 34, FCC commissioner only since October and now the youngest chairman in the history of the commission...
...bought another Chicago paper, the Daily News. Field also owns World Book Encyclopedia, which outsells even the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica deals cursorily with the Neanderthals, merely giving their physical characteristics (thickset physiques, sloping foreheads, receding chins) and observing that they were an aberrant strain, extinct 50,000 years ago. With the skill of an artist (and not, as is often the case in attempts of this kind, a taxidermist), Golding re-creates the Neanderthals and the dawn mist in which they lived. To the eye they are stubby, smallish, powerful near apes, covered with reddish fur. But they are dimly intelligent, although their minds do not work like those of Homo sapiens. In addition to the simple tools...
...grandson of Lutheran ministers, prolific "Jary" Pelikan has written six books (best known: 1959'S The Riddle of Roman Catholicism, which sold 42,000 copies), co-authored six others, produced more than 100 scholarly articles. He also serves as one of the religion editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A graduate of the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, he won his doctorate at Chicago at the age of 22, has established himself as an ecumenical-minded expert on church history. Pelikan, who styles himself as an "evangelical catholic" and "critical traditionalist," believes that the success...