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...latest press conference, Reagan made fewer errors than usual. He glanced at notes (a crutch that must have bothered an actor good at remembering his lines). But as he says himself: "I have never claimed to be a whiz kid, a robot, a bionic adding machine or a walking encyclopedia...
...least a quarter of every college curriculum should consist of small seminars in which the "Great Books" are discussed, Mortimer J. Adler, chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica and an authority on innovative teaching techniques, said yesterday at the opening of a Britannica publications display at the Coop...
When C.P. Snow was an eight-year-old in the drab Midlands city of Leicester, he read about the atom in a children's encyclopedia. An atom, the credulous lad was told, resembles the ulterior of a cathedral, in which tennis balls-the electrons-bounce about violently. This fanciful account gave the factory clerk's son "the first sharp mental excitement I ever had." He never quite got over...
...always homesick," O'Connor told TIME last week. But she loved her summers on the ranch, where she had plenty of time to read. A dog-eared Book of Knowledge encyclopedia, copies of the National Geographic Magazine and her father's assorted volumes from the Book-of-the-Month Club fed her curiosity. By the age often, she could drive both a truck and a tractor. "I didn't do all the things boys did, but I fixed windmills and repaired fences." Recalls her girlhood friend and cousin, Flournoy Manzo: "We played with dolls, but we knew...
...writes books that win prizes, publishes articles in scholarly magazines, lectures on medical ethics, and leads seminars. In between she speaks five languages, earns honorary Phi Beta Kappa degrees, and studies philosophy. And she's sat on the advisory boards of the Amnesty International Medical Committee, the "Encyclopedia of Bioethics," and the Committee on Clinical Investigation of Children's Hospital in Boston...