Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individuals are undoubtedly years off, for Kalman's is a counsel of pharmacological perfection. Nonetheless, he and two fellow pharmacologists at Stanford, Drs. Avram Goldstein and Lewis Aronow, have given it considerable impetus with their exhaustive, 884-page study, Principles of Drug Action (Hoeber Medical Division of Harper & Row). The differences among patients in their reactions to drugs may be caused by race, individual heredity, personal idiosyncrasy, or allergic reaction. Enzyme deficiencies and abnormal hemoglobins are found among Negroes and some Mediterranean peoples. In as many as 10% of Negro males, normal doses of the antimalarial drug primaquine will...
TIME OUT OF HAND: REVOLUTION AND REACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA by Robert Shaplen. 465 pages. Harper...
...THERE. IT BETTER BE WORTH THE TRIP, by John Donovan (Harper & Row; $3.95). A few months in the life of a 13-year-old emigre from New England to New York City in the custody of a mother who is almost a stranger. Rather sophisticated, with a semihomosexual scene, and a semi-Catcher in the Rye style, the book is nevertheless remarkably touching...
RUTGERS AND THE WATER-SNOUTS, by Barbara Dana (Harper & Row; $3.95). Rutgers is a bulldog who composes light verse for friends. A marvelous readaloud book, especially for anybody who wants to find out what water-snouts...
...strength of David Halberstam's The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy (Random House; $4.95) lies in a felicity of language and a feeling for the political and social unease in the U.S. as the election of 1968 approached. (Halberstam, now 35 and an editor of Harper's magazine, won a Pulitzer prize for his 1963 New York Times coverage of Viet Nam.) He begins his account in the late summer of 1967 with a meeting between Bobby and Allard Lowenstem, a leader of the gathering anti-Johnson forces. He follows the Senator through his doomed campaign, ending with...