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...infallible Bible, is still deeply entrenched in the South. This assessment comes from one of the more knowing observers of the area: Erskine Caldwell, who immortalized the mores of Dixie in such bestselling novels as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. In a new book of factual reporting called Deep South (Wey-bright & Talley; $6.50), Caldwell gives eyewitness testimony that the basic beliefs of many Southern churches have been left untouched by the changes affecting the rest of U.S. Christianity...
...program are cautiously willing to concede that in some ways it represents a healthy experiment. Berkeley Psychologist Norma Haan thinks Pacific is "realistic about the problems that today's teen-agers and their parents face." Children who merge from such a free school tend to be behind in factual knowledge, she notes, but they catch up quickly because "they are better able to interpret what they read." They also get a lot of adolescent rebelliousness out of their system, seem ready for the kind of independent study increasingly required by U.S. colleges...
Visconti has tackled his responsibility with the same fanatical concern for factual accuracy that Richard Brooks demonstrated in making In Cold Blood (TIME, Dec. 22). He had authorities in Algiers rip up a street to lay down trolley tracks that had been there during the period of the story (1938-39), and even ordered a reprinting of cigarette packages to match those sold at the time. Visconti's film of The Stranger follows the action of the novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness...
Community agencies participating in the boycott would refuse to reveal information about people they help, he said. He also urged individuals not to give factual information to Joint Center researchers or reply to surveys taken by them...
...HONEYBEES by Franklin Russell, illustrated by Colette Portal (Knopf; $3.95). A factual account of the twelve-month cycle of a honeybee colony. The best of the nonfiction, well told and with excellent illustrations...