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ROBERT BLY was in Cambridge one Saturday last spring. He wasn't giving a reading, no poetry conferences had been proposed; he was simply visiting friends. He spent the afternoon in the Grolier Bookshop and the Bick, and the evening in an apartment on Beacon Hill, reading from a long unpublished poem to an audience of four...
...best are The World Book En cyclopedia, which has dominated the grade-school market in recent years, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Britannica Junior Encyclopaedia. Those three now face strong competition from the New Book of Knowledge, which Grolier, Inc., has just completed after spending nine years and $7,000,000. It retains only the name of Grolier's famed earlier set, which was designed more for broad-subject browsing than for detailed, focused information...
Most of the 7,000 issues traded daily over-the-counter represent companies that are not sufficiently large, seasoned or profitable to be listed on the major exchanges. But the OTC index of 35 stocks includes such mighty companies as Anheuser-Busch, Ethyl Corp., Rockwell Manufacturing, Grolier, Eli Lilly and Dun & Bradstreet. They are a remarkably reliable mirror of the entire OTC market: the most recent study showed that the average price of 538 nationally listed OTC stocks gained at a pace that was virtually identical to the OTC index's gain...
Several young writers in Cambridge and New York are starting a new literary quarterly. The first issue of the Grolier Review will appear in June...
...problem: machines are useless without them. Tested programs of full-year courses cost as much as $75,000 to produce, and they are still scarce. Apart from Crowder's branching school, the leading program makers include Albuquerque's Teaching Machines Inc. (the programing affiliate of Grolier); Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, which is programing an entire high school curriculum; Manhattan's Basic Systems Inc., which is testing programs for underdeveloped countries; and Manhattan's Carnegie-and Ford-financed Center for Programed Instruction, which grew out of the project at Collegiate School, and is now writing and testing programs...