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...because nothing has been published in the field, like the Ho-Bryson work, are usually written out of dissatisfaction with what has been rolling off publishing house presses. The way Lynn Loomis, whose new book "Calculus" replaced George Thomas's leading work in the field as the Math I text-book, explains the procedure. "You set out to write the definitive textbook. I taught the course [Math I] for a number of years, and never liked any of the books we used. So I tried to write the best," Loomis said recently...
...comparative analysis underlies the analytical parts of the book. Kelman evidently sees himself as a modern Tocqueville, journeying to what he describes as the Communist future in East Germany to warn Americans that they are better off with what they have--nice consumer goods in large quantities, and, incidentally, text-book freedom. When Kelman crosses over to West Germany, he ritually cements his warm relationship with America by self-consciously buying a Coca-Cola...
...absolutely text-book launch," Reeves aid. "The weather rocket pointing and recovery were perfect...
...building permit for the Coop's text-book annex should be revoked, Irving J. Helman '39, attorney for the Church Street Trust, told the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal yesterday. "The proposed loading platform," he insisted, "does not comply with the requirements of the Building Code...
...completely in lessening cold war tensions--and Hughes' account of the U-2 debacle is brilliant--it is hard to see who might succeed. Eisenhower was given a chance to galvanize the country which is not likely to be offered again to someone else. Hughes' moral is of text-book simplicity: In Eisenhower's fall/We sinned...