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Copied widely, Kiplinger's letters and their imitators have set into a mold that combines forecast of trends with bite-size gobbets of news chopped to fit the busy businessman's crowded schedule. "Kiplinger does for the executive," says Bernard Gallagher, "what the Reader's Digest does for the peasant." Much newsletter forecasting is done in the vague language of fortunetellers, and no newsletter turns out the double-edged style, the wise guess that can be read both ways, more assiduously than Kiplinger's Washington Letter...
...Dickens. Read Whatshisname." As his daughter Hypatia, Frances Sternhagen seems to have been born with a riding crop in hand and the conviction that the pursuit of a mate is the most exciting form of fox hunt. James Greene is cringingly comic as a socialist underdog who yearns to bite the hand that feeds...
Tender Qualities. In his previous novels (The Natural, The Assistant), Author Bernard Malamud, 47, wrote allegories that had the convincing bite of realism. Though there has never been a home run king like The Natural's Outfielder Roy Hobbs, his tragicomic baseball adventures seem as authentic as Mantle and Maris. Though The Assistant's lyrical delicatessen world cannot be found anywhere in Brooklyn, the painful journey toward redemption of ex-Thief Frank Alpine rings universally true. In contrast, A New Life is written primarily in realistic terms, and in those terms it often fails. Cascadia State is obviously...
...forthcoming. The complete indifference of Congress to the issue, even though mighty Harvard thought it important, carried implications about the College's importance that may be hard for some officials and faculty to swallow, although renewed discussion of the NDEA indicates that many are willing to try a bite...
Because snails are carriers of the blood fluke that causes schistosomiasis, a disease on the rampage in Egypt, parasitologists are growing 20 varieties of snails in order to test 3,000 chemicals that might kill the fluke. Tropical virologists grow many kinds of mosquitoes to bite size, to study what subspecies can transmit such diseases as yellow fever and eastern equine encephalitis, a form of sleeping sickness that periodically reaches epidemic strength in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Louisiana. "Problems-nothing but problems," says Dr. G. Robert Coatney. "In nature mosquitoes grow without any trouble, but when we try to raise...