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Djilas, Milovan Conversations with Stalin. (Harcourt, Brace & World...
...people are most likely to act most of the time is slowly being gathered by the young "behavioral sciences" -anthropology, psychology, sociology and related fields. Unhappily, much of the evidence is shrouded in jargon. Happily, nonscholars may turn this week to Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings (Harcourt, Brace & World; $11), the first plain-English compendium of behavioral science's best-tested propositions...
...fight for circulation with all the costly gadgetry of modern news gathering. Walkie-talkies, high-speed teleprinters, facsimile transmitters and radio-equipped cars are standard reportorial accessories. To cover a big story quickly, Tokyo's Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 3,900,000) will throw in mobile radiophoto units, a brace of helicopters, one of its six airplanes. Beyond all that, Japanese newspapers' rooftops are equipped with some of the oddest journalistic aids in use anywhere today-flocks of carrier pigeons...
...cripples and eventually kills most hemophiliacs; it is internal bleeding, especially into the joints, that does the damage. "This," said Manhattan's Dr. Henry H. Jordan, "is more crippling than either polio or arthritis. But it's incredible what rehabilitation can do. Many patients can discard a brace, for example, after five or even ten years." Today, some hemophiliacs work as longshoremen and loggers...
...VENETIAN AFFAIR by Helen MacInnes. 405 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...