Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calmly, patiently instructing him on how to keep his little four-year-old ankles straight, shift the puck from side to side and let that slap shot go. Father Duke dies, but his creation lives on, and we watch him go from Squirt to Pee Wee to Midget to Bantam to the Junior Leagues, and finally, as Derek Sanderson looks on, to a triumphant performance at Toronto and the OHA championship...
...come. Predictably, most of these creations were hotly and hastily done by Women's righters who are not, alas, women writers. Hardly any can compare to the majestic range and mastery of the few earlier classics on the subject, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (Bantam; $1.25) or Virginia Woolf's graceful, extraordinarily affecting A Room of One's Own (Harbinger; $1.95), both happily still in print...
...Scoop") Jackson had the Democratic right to himself, talking defense up and radicals down, backing Nixon on Viet Nam and antibusing. Then along came George Wallace to steal his constituency and any chance Scoop had of taking Florida. Now Jackson is concentrating on Tennessee, and plans to challenge the bantam Southerner in his home state of Alabama. An upset win there could carry Jackson to the later primaries out West, where he is better known. Wallace figures to win Florida and stay in the race all the way, then come into Miami with as many as 250 delegates...
...summer study" discussed below was a seminar of 47 scientists which was held under the auspices of the Jason Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses in the summer of 1966. Further discussion of it can be found in the Bantam edition of the Pentagon Papers (pp. 483-485) and in Document No. 117 (p. 502). The New York Times citing the original Pentagon study, emphasizes that the scientists' work was a major influence in persuading then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that the bombing of North Vietnam was ineffective in curtailing North Vietnam's military activities in the south...
...could not have done more for the man who actually created him. Author Dent, who died in 1959, never got more than $750 for a Doc Savage novel. His widow, who lives in La Plata, Mo., has no contractual rights to the stories. Of the millions made by the Bantam reprints she will not get a penny...