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...nation European Common Market. In his State of the Union message, the President said he would request a "bold new instrument" to reshape U.S. trade policy and meet the demands of a changing international economy. Last week he did just that, sending up to Capitol Hill a fat, 52-page proposed Trade Expansion Act of 1962 designed "to promote the general welfare, foreign policy and security of the United States through international trade agreements and through adjustment assistance to domestic industry, agriculture and labor...
...more than 100 countries and outsells all other monthly magazines in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, Venezuela-and, of course, the U.S. Last week the Reader's Digest-circ. 22.8 million-proudly observed its 40th birthday with a 300-page anniversary issue...
...February Digest of 1962 reproduced the cover of its first issue and reprised its first reprinted article, "How to Keep Young Mentally," which encouraged charter subscribers to "Observe! Remember! Compare!" Another feature of this first issue, also reproduced, was a varied collection of homilies, designed to plump out a page and satisfy the public appetite for bite-size sermons. Examples...
...FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx-eyes over every other page--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading: and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be Specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations needn...
...write out "TIME!!" in inch-high scrawls--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't ('Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...