A letter from the PUBLISHER

To keep up -with the news, an intelligent human being has to watch the language. It lives and changes constantly, with the development of new words and expressions and new uses for old words and expressions. Keeping up with the language in this week’s TIME: aminotriazole. Bad for Thanksgiving. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.). crotchet. A quarter note. See Music, Family Orchestra.

dialytic parabiosis. A modern technique reminiscent of 17th century experiments in blood transfusion. See MEDICINE, Sheep’s Blood Bath.

Edsel (obs.). The wrong car in the wrong place at the wrong time. See BUSINESS, The $250 Million Flop.

emerging peoples. New bureaucratic term for sensitive poor nations, replacing underdeveloped countries. See FOREIGN NEWS, The First Battle.

experience vapor. An executive fog from which the boss can see with amazing clarity. See BUSINESS, The Greeting Card King.

gondola. A carrier to the fringe of space. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Descent to the Future. high wrangler. Cambridge University term for a top mathematician. See BOOKS, Wrangler’s World.

magnetohydrodynamics. The study of “plasmas” of ionized particles. See SCIENCE, Gas in the Generator. presence. Being there, but unofficially. See FOREIGN NEWS, Extending the “Presence.”

proim. A prime cut of meat in Brooklyn that too often tastes like hawss-meat. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cheaters.

red-dogging. The pursuit of a ball carrier by a monstrous linebacker. See SPORT, “A Man’s Game.”

riding (also hyping). What a deejay does when he overplays a record for personal reasons, sometimes for payola. See SHOW BUSINESS, Facing the Music.

syrup of human kindness. Sweeter and stickier than the milk. See THEATER, The Sound of Music.

waffle. Doubletalk, or sometimes bafflegab. See FOREIGN NEWS, Without Waffle.

wart hog principle. One wart hog probably looks just dandy to another. See BOOKS, Clothes Make Mankind.

Whooping Congress man. A migratory species of Washington rara avis best known for raucous cries and laying eggs in exotic places. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Scrutable Occidental.