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...VERTICAL SMILE by Richard Condon. 334 pages. Dial...
...animal behavior. As a boy, he had had toads and chipmunks. He also had a vivid memory of watching a troupe of trained pigeons at a county fair play at putting out a fire. Besides, he had read and been excited by some Bertrand Russell articles in the old Dial magazine about Johns Hopkins Psychologist John B. Watson, father of behaviorism. It was with Watson, in 1913, that psychology really emerged from its origins in philosophy to become a full-fledged scientific discipline...
Entitled They Call It A Game (Dial; $7.95), Parrish's book indicts the football establishment for its greed, manipulations and possible crooked dealings in building and protecting its monopoly. Writes Parrish:"I thought of something Jim Brown had once said to me after a tough game. There are only a few hunters but everybody wants to eat the meat.' I had agreed, That's basic in nature. The lion makes the kill, hyenas in packs take whatever they can from the lion, and vultures pick the bones.' The same natural or der prevails in pro football...
Next day Scott and Irwin discovered that a glass covering on a dial in the lunar module had mysteriously shattered. Although the breakage itself was inconsequential, Mission Control was anxious to have them sweep up glass fragments lest they damage the astronauts' pressure suits. The shards were collected with a piece of sticky, flypaper-like tape and a vacuum hose...
Chinese hotels are not air conditioned, despite sweltering summers, and the Americans found that room service was undependable. The crude domestic soap and toilet paper was best avoided. Room telephones in the Tung Fang, Roderick discovered, could be made to work once the dialing code was divined (dial 666 for the front desk)-but he had to go downstairs to learn the instructions...