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Florida's Textbook Adoption Committee considered 21 texts, finally adopted three levelheaded books: J. Edgar Hoover's new A Study of Communism, Daniel N. Jacobs' The Masks of Communism, and The Meaning of Communism, published this week by Time Inc.'s Silver Burdett Co. (Simon & Schuster carries a $3.95 bookstore edition). The Hoover and Jacobs books are adult-level studies of the theory, structure and spread of Communism. The Silver Burdett book is Florida's "basic" text. Its author is LIFE Staff Writer William J. Miller, in association with two noted Russian experts, Columbia University...
Brown served 34 years as secretary of the Missions Board, "thankful to have a part in the movement for human betterment." He produced what is still the classic guide to the essential meaning of pastoral life abroad, The Foreign Missionary. At the behest of his friend Herbert Hoover, Brown helped establish a number of World War I relief committees-notably Near East Relief, which raised more than $116 million to assist 1,500,000 war-dispossessed refugees...
carols Robert Frost. "One Hundred is just around the corner," is Herbert Hoover's salutation, and Sir Winston, wintering in London, sends us "felicitations on nine decades of print, fret, toil, and smears...
...about money has ballooned bad-check losses in the U.S. to an estimated $1 billion a year. But bum-check pushers may shortly find their livelihood threatened by automation. In Los Angeles, a pair of science-minded entrepreneurs are using a digital computer to blot out what J. Edgar Hoover calls "fountain-pen bandits...
...operator who somehow manages to be a popular fellow nonetheless. He plays softball with Pancho Gonzales and the sons of Bing Crosby. He is probably the only regular at the craps tables of Las Vegas who goes off in the daytime to water-ski on nearby Lake Mead above Hoover Dam, and his go-go dynamism stops dead when the Dodgers are playing in Chavez Ravine. He takes off for the ball park...