November 7, 1971

Let us now praise famous men: Switzerland's Jean Piaget for his pioneering psychological investigations into the child's own construction of reality; New York's Donald Barthelme for diving clean through the polished surface of conventional verbiage into a new undercurrent of narrative truth; and France's Eugene Ionesco for imbuing the banalities of everyday happenstance with cosmic dramatic significance.

The tall figure of Albert Shanker, a dominant force in New York City school affairs for the last seven years, will soon be casting its shadow across the Long Island school scene.

WASHINGTON—Over the years the foreign aid program has provided the annual cliffhanger for the end of the Congressional session. But this year the actors on Capitol Hill have almost lost control of the drama.

defeat of NYS transportation bond issue and resultant pol and budgetary squeeze for NYC and NYS discussed; little advance indication of extent of bond issue's defeat noted; proposition lost by 900,000 in total vote of 4 million; pol implications of bond issue's defeat for Lindsay and Rockefeller discussed; sketch

5-megaton Spartan warhead tested successfully, Amchitka Is, without causing earthquake; shock waves, however, rock island severely; Schlesinger calls test successful and safe; test registers 7.0 on Richter Scale; Maj Gen Giller sees no need for 2d test; no radiation detected; immediate effects and reaction by observers described; Cannikin dir R E Miller says concern over test had been unduly stimulated but is understandable; Schlesinger again defends blast necessity; motor vessel Greenpeace 2 remains 700 mi from blast because of bad weather; illus of seismograph at Ore Museum of Science and Indus registering shock waves