Word: bantams
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Sudduth qualified for the Games in the U.S. Olympic trials held June 11 on Harsha Lake in Bantam, Ohio. The sculler finished the 2000-meter course in just 6:45.47, more than 6 1/2 seconds ahead of his nearest competitor...
...Bantam; 275 pages...
...scrappy, quintessential "car guy" who, after a 32-year career at Ford, rescued Chrysler, brought him more than 71,000 letters, including suggestions that he run for President and pleas for advice on family, finance and foreign affairs. Now the chairman is back with a sequel, Talking Straight (Bantam Books; $21.95), in which he dispenses the folk wisdom his fans were asking for. He is by turns caustic, magnanimous and earthy but almost never bland...
...hoping to fulfill a career-long dream of seeing his books at airport newsstands, Stephen is putting the finishing touches on A Brief History of Time (Bantam), a popular nonmathematical account that will be published in April. "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales," says Hawking. "In the end, however, I did put in Einstein's famous equation E = m c squared. I hope that this will not scare off half my potential readers...
...Bantam Books, 513 pages...