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Keeping Up With The Rockefellers

The Status Seekers. By Vance Packard. (Longmans, 21s.) MR. VANCE PACKARD is not a sociologist, which means that some of his conclusions about con- temporary America are......

Ends Of The Earth

k(411:RT SOUTHEY is a writer whose reputation has become somewhat dimmed in the last 150 years, 11(1 it is not likely to get any brighter. However, In his Portuguese and French......