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...oldest (87) and senior (53 years on Capitol Hill) U.S. Senator, Arizona's Carl Hayden deemed it only proper to set two Princeton profs straight on U.S. history. A passage in their textbook American Democracy and Practice, he pointed out, "is not in accord with the latest edition of the Congressional Directory, which indicates I was re-elected in 1962." That was putting it mildly. The book says Hayden died...
...best, Morison has the power to lift his country's past from textbook constriction and invest it with his own insight and understanding. He is notably effective in writing about the Puritan settlers, whom he interestingly compares with 19th century Roman Catholic Americans, about the vigorous life of the colonial seaports, about the true spirit of the American Revolution "a civil war," he calls it, reluctantly entered upon by men who "were thinking of preserving and securing the freedom they already enjoyed." Yet he is oddly disappointing on the Civil War, and some of his afterthoughts seem to trespass...
There are some dubious democracies that are evolving toward more freedom; unlike being pregnant, it is possible to be a little bit democratic. Perhaps the textbook example of how a benign dictatorship can encourage democracy is Ayub Khan, who remains a military strongman but in seven years has moved Pakistan to the point where he himself ran scared for President in this year's election-and against a 71-year-old woman at that. Similarly, Thailand, now under semiautocratic rule, is preparing a constitution. The Shah of Iran has mobilized the intellectual resources of his nation for economic, social...
...talented wordsmith has stayed in constant demand. He finished The Young Lions ("by actual account, it was the fourteenth attempt by nine writers"), struck out on Walter Wanger's Cleopatra after nine days, but made good with Not as a Stranger, an almost textbook example of Anhalt's method...
...Harvard Cooperative Society yesterday pledged to retain its present rates patronage refunds this year. The Coop's eneral manager cautioned, however, that sts of the new Palmer St. textbook may force slight reductions in either...