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...Claire McCardell?) nor the most exemplary (witness the inclusions of Lizzie Borden and Hetty Green.) The women have been classified under ten major headings, most rather arbitrary, which just makes for more nit-picking. The editors at Time-Life must have had a hard time deciding whether Ayn Rand was a writer or an intellectual, whether Sarah Caldwell was an artist or "a winner in a man's world," whether Louisa May Alcott was a novelist or a "tastemaker." The difficulties of such judgements should have made one thing very clear to them: that most "remarkable" women are remarkable because...
...Montreal, it seemed almost atavistic. Gone, at least for now, are the days when the superpowers smugly split up the men's track and field medals between them, leaving only scrap iron for the satellites of sport. The victors' list last week read like a Rand McNally index, with 13 nations sharing the 23 gold medals (a division of spoils that might have been even wider had the Africans been competing). Mexico, Cuba and Trinidad fielded their first champions, and Guy Drut brought France its only gold since 1956 when he popped over the last 110-meter hurdle...
...glad you put that question mark after the headline "Booze for Alcoholics?" [June 21]. What Rand scientists say may be possible, but for hundreds of alcoholics it is risky as all hell...
ATLAS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Maps selection and commentary by Kenneth Nebenzahl, text by Don Higginbotham. 218 pages. Rand McNally. $35. For the armchair strategist who cannot visit the battlefields, or for anyone who simply wonders where all the shooting was, detailed maps drawn at the time are the only satisfactory way to get one's bearings. In this broad, rich book, Cartography Expert Nebenzahl has collected 54 maps of battle sites and cities, seacoasts and ship-filled harbors, and reproduced them in full color at great size (some map spreads are 15 in. by 20 in.). Beautiful, faithful...
...around its invention. Since last summer, however, five companies have entered the single-element field. At least one more is expected. Chief among the rivals is the Royal Typewriter Co., a division of Litton Industries, whose new offering is called the 5000. Other brand names are Remington (a Sperry Rand division), Triumph-Adler (another Litton subsidiary), Italy's Olivetti and Sweden's Facit. A Japanese entry is still to come...