Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heavy enough to induce hernia in the unconditioned. The Baseball Encyclopedia does not contain all there is to know about baseball. But it does hold more than enough to nourish the fan until opening day. It is the definitive reference book of baseball, the only tome that lists the year-by-year performance statistics for almost every man and child (Joe Nuxhall was only 16 when he pitched for Cincinnati) who ever played in the major leagues. The current (third) edition is now being sold out. There will not be another until 1980 -an aeon away to the true baseball...
...1960s? More to the point, would anybody care? That question did not seem to faze Commerce Department bureaucrats, who last week lovingly unveiled Social Indicators 1976, a 647-page, relentless compilation of statistics on just about everything you ever wanted to know about Bicentennial Year America. The lavishly illustrated tome was four years in the amassing. Trivia-mongers can buy it for $7 from the U.S. Government Printing Office. But scattered among all the more useless stats are some fascinating facts and projections about the nation. Samples...
...legal fees to beat a $90 fine. His heart went out to the young OSHA inspector who broke down on the witness stand and admitted that her only qualification was a 40-hour series of OSHA seminars. But Pinga is convinced that his fight was worthwhile. Thumping a thick tome of OSHA regulations, he declares: "If this book existed when my dad came to this country in 1906, this nation would still be a prairie. Now it's bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy. That's not America...
...even the most ardent oceanographer is likely to devote whole weeks to this huge tome on the wet 75% of the earth's surface. But anyone who is interested in the ocean-from Jacques Cousteau to the vacationing urbanite curious about the formation of a beach-should enjoy diving beneath the covers of the Rand McNally Atlas of the Oceans and coming back for regular plunges thereafter. Like a galleon full of gold, the Atlas overflows with treasures, details of life in, under and around the edges of the vast roiling arenas where earthly life evolved...
...first time, there exists a single directory that enables businessmen, secretaries, journalists, publicists and others to get information about 50,000 such places across the country without having to go through local telephone exchanges, which, at best, provide only phone numbers, not addresses. The 2½-lb., 640-page tome, entitled the National Directory of Addresses and Telephone Numbers (Bantam; $9.95), lists the most wanted businesses, governments, services, trade associations, foundations and cultural organizations throughout the U.S. Its originator and editor, Stanley Greenfield, 52, director of the magazine-acquisition and development group at CBS, says it would take...