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THE MERCHANT or PRATO (422 pp.)-Iris Origo-Knopf ($7.50).
Heaped into sacks and bundled under the stairs of his house, the Datini papers came to light again in 1870, little the worse for damp and mice. They included no fewer than 150,000 letters, more than 500 account books, 400 insurance policies, numerous ledgers-all of them adding up...
Hailing the new trend, half a dozen U.S. museums this year are featuring their newly acquired Monet paintings. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has hung a show of its whole collection of 33 Monet oils to honor its recently purchased, nonimpres-sionist La Japonaise (see overleaf), Monet'...
The stylish assemblage of ladies at a Washington tea party looked more like a country-club dance committee than the practical female politicos they are. Wearing the choicest congressional chapeaux, six of the nine Democratic women now in the House of Representatives gathered to enjoy hat chats and conversation about...
To a large extent, the machine relies on the talents of the doctor using it. If an inexperienced physician had made the examination, he would have punched fewer keys and been flooded with confusing cards. But, when Paycha's robot doctor was displayed at the World Cybernetics Congress in...