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...THINGS WORK: AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TECHNOLOGY. 590 pages. Simon & Schusfer...
...Maurois, "Borges makes out of all of them a game for the mind." In the chaos of the universe, the power of the imagination becomes the important thing. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Terris," a beneficent secret society of scholars formulates, over three centuries, an imaginary planet. The 40-volume encyclopedia describing Tlon--man's most vast undertaking--is discovered in a Memphis, Tenn., library in 1944. Tlon contains a "doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death" and has a word for "the vague tremulous rose color we see with...
...Pentagon's "Bombing Encyclopedia" for North Viet Nam lists 18,000 potential targets, ranging from a tumbledown bamboo bridge over a little-used canal to Ho Chi Minh's Hanoi headquarters. Only 5,000 of them are considered militarily significant, and most can be attacked at the Pentagon's discretion. Between 350 and 400 politically sensitive targets have been referred to President Johnson for his personal approval to raid them. To date, he has given the go-ahead on all but approximately...
...East German regime also publishes an encyclopedia that keeps East Germans up-to-date on the meaning of foreign words they may hear in movies, or on the West German television that is watched by most East Germans. Academic freedom, for example, is defined as "the obsolete viewpoint that professors and students should enjoy independence from social demands in their university work." Coca-Cola gets far more Objektivist treatment. It is simply "a soft drink sold in all countries under U.S. influence...
...Which in 1965 brought out the Catholic Encyclopedia for School and Home in twelve volumes, intended chiefly for children...