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After two trial runs last fall and this summer, The New York Review of Books has begun to publish bi-weekly: it is one of the most fantastic mixtures of genius and literary offal to descend on the book world in a decade. The genius of the Review is partly its conception--it could grow to fill the void The New Republic left in the 1930's when it slipped from its role of providing focus and direction in exploring liberal ideas. Since that time, American thinkers have had no publication literary or political which could serve as a forum...
...could afford such a role. Still playing the revolutionary, Ben Bella has set up a training camp for 1,000 Angolan guerrillas who hope to drive the Portuguese colonialists from their homeland, and at a foreign ministers' conference in Dakar last week, he rousingly urged the delegates to descend on the U.N. in mass for a last-ditch fight against Portugal and South Africa...
...over before the Sunday breakfast invasion begins. Sunday mornings are all family trade, when mothers treat themselves to a big breakfast they don't have to cook. One astute chain operator studied possible locations in Yonkers, N.Y., finally built opposite a Roman Catholic church, from which starving worshipers "descend like locusts" after morning Mass...
...terraces and gardens; all interior spaces will be air-conditioned, and circulation between levels will be by elevators, escalators or stairs enclosed in glass kiosks. At the north end, two cantilevered buildings rise to break the otherwise static skyline; at the south end, a series of terraced "hanging gardens" descend from the grade to Panther Hollow Lake, a boating and skating pond below. The whole has been described as a 150-story building "resting on its side...
...high-speed turnpike that cuts like a six-lane ribbon across a five-mile stretch near Newark Airport, motorist are conscious of only one thing: the area stinks from industrial chimneys. But that is merely a discomfort. Far more dangerous is the fact that fog can and does descend upon the marshy meadowlands along the turnpike. To warn motorists, New Jersey has spent some $300,000 on fog horns, fog lights, etc. But nothing seems to work. Early one morning last week, the lethal soup swirled in. Warning signs flashed futilely. Samuel Baker, of Phillipsburg, N.J., slowed his Volkswagen...