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Hardest of all was the use of color. Sporadically, through the years, Kline tried and failed. Black and white, the nouns and verbs of his paintings, could talk to each other in a stately pidgin English, but colors, the adjectives and adverbs, often garbled the conversation to an incoherent babble...
Last week all rights to the 25,000-word manuscript were sold to the McCall Corp. The initial payment was $1,000,000, probably the highest figure ever for a piece of its length. Depending on the bidding for book rights, the final figure could be even higher.
Genetics may open the door to still more macabre methods of destruction. In The Biological Time Bomb (World; $5.50), published last week, British Science Writer Gordon Rattray Taylor raises the specter of genetic warfare-one nation permanently weakening the people of another by infecting them with potent lab-made viruses...
as "a powerful financial helpmate, a big brother," Susskind now hopes to plunge more deeply into moviemaking by bidding for bestselling books and other high-priced material. He will have the incentive as well as the resources.
* Losers in the bidding: a group led by the U.S.'s Morrison-Knudsen Co. and another formed around British companies, including English Electric Co.