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...understand. But having been at the Observatory for 25 years, he knows a lot about the backwaters of the place. In one continuous phrase, he sums up the history of the Observatory, commenting in passing on everything from Astro 1 (" ... the Harvard freshman course, which at one time, ahem, was a gut or football course") to the nature of astronomy (...there is a great deal of continuity in this science, unlike many others...") to the influence of the space race on astronomy. "The Apollo program, plus bad publicity, killed off public interest; it was extremely ill-advised to sell such...
...Well, ahem, says Bouton, he was thinking of "social commentary, an honest book that tells what baseball is really like." Kuhn, apparently, is not big on social commentary, and last week he ordered Bouton not to write another word about baseball as long as he remained an active player. In light of Bouton's pitching performances this season -two wins, three losses, an ERA of 7.02-the warning may not stay in effect for very long. In any case, Ball Four (World Publishing Co.; $6.95), a diary of the author's ups and downs with the New York...
...latest revelation. Incestuous feelings are natural and healthy, but the fear of incest is the root of all evil. He discovers very TIME, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 little that is not evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist, Hero Wylie discovers that the old tycoon is guilty of multifarious fornications, industrial sharp practices, attempted treason, and coveting his own son's young wife. The girl ha.s a father complex...
...Moscow swept platoon after platoon of insistent commissars-French, Italian, Austrian, Danish, Indian, Mongolian-all clamoring for explanations. Why had Khrushchev been ousted? How could the new regime justify its coup d'état? What were Moscow's new policies-particularly vis-à-vis Red China? And, ahem! was Nikita all right? "In fact," said one old Moscow hand, "the problem is that this crowd came to power without a program and is now having to improvise like mad." First they tried out their answers on Wladyslaw Gomulka, Khrushchev's crusty crony whose approval Brezhnev and Kosygin...
...retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed a 1,235-lb. black marlin off Peru. And what does he do now? He lives in Florida, poking around the Keys after bonefish. "The toughest saltwater fish there is," says he, adding with a slight ahem that he has caught more than 1,000 in his lifetime...