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...conqueror of Mount Everest, New Zealand's beekeeping Sir Edmund Hillary, was again planning to get above it all in the high Himalayas. Grubstaked with a tidy $200,000 from Chicago Publisher Bailey Howard (World Book Encyclopedia), Sir Edmund will attempt the most grueling mountaineering feat ever tried-to climb hazardous Mount Makalu (27,790 ft. and the world's fifth highest peak) without benefit of oxygen equipment. To prepare for the endeavor, Hillary and the other climbers plan to winter at 20,000 ft. Along the way Sir Edmund hopes to bump into an Abominable Snowman (TIME...
Most ambitious plunge of all is Encyclopedia of World Art, announced by McGraw-Hill. Undertaken jointly with Rome's Institute for Cultural Collaboration, it is probably the greatest venture ever in art publications. The first huge volume (Aalto to Asia Minor), issued simultaneously in English and Italian will be in the stores next month. The scholarship, supplied by contributors from 18 countries, is outstanding, the 542 page-plates excellent (98 pages are in color). Plans call for four volumes a year until by the end of the 15th volume, 9,000,000 words and 7,000 plates will have...
...most of the reportorial digging. They worked together on the 1956 slum-clearance expose, collaborated again this year on an extracurricular writing assignment for the Nation. Titled "The Shame of New York," it was a 62-page rehash of previous Cook-Gleason investigations that added little new to the encyclopedia of New York's seamy side. The Nation piece earned Cook and Gleason an invitation to Open...
...special form of wages, a survival of serfdom days when the lord, pleased with his servant, gave him a reward of money.-The Soviet Encyclopedia...
...walls of the gym, were arrayed more than a thousand sweltering Louisianians-many of them leathery farmers in shirtsleeves, who had arrived before dawn (and had been sustained through the humid hours by soft drinks sold by the ladies of the P.T.A. for the benefit of the junior high encyclopedia fund). At precisely 10:40 a.m. there was a rustle at the rear of the gym and a voice rasped: "Push 'em back! Push 'em back!" Behind a wedge of deputies, to the roar of yells, applause and cheers, Louisiana's embattled Governor, Earl Kemp Long, walked...