Television: Nov. 21, 1969

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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by Antonia Eraser. A rich, billowing biography of a pretty queen who, by casting herself as a religious martyr, has upstaged her mortal enemy, Queen Elizabeth I, in the imagination of posterity.

THEM, by Joyce Carol Gates. One family's battle to escape the economic and spiritual depression of urban American life.

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6. Ambassador's Journal, Galbraith

7. The Honeycomb, St. Johns (7)

8. Prime Time, Kendrick (4)

9. The American Heritage Dictionary

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