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LAST BOOKS READ: Script for the screen version of Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Primate Behavior of the Uprooted by Irwin DeVore and Oscar Handlin, and We Love You Bruins...
...Manhattan. Continental is headed by French-born Michel Fribourg, 59, a shrewd, aggressive executive, whose family founded the firm in Belgium more than 150 years ago. Cargill was started a little over a century ago by W.W. Cargill, a Wisconsin farm lad. The company's present chairman, Irwin E. Kelm, has the distinction of being the first chief from outside the Cargill and MacMillan related families, who still hold 90% of the stock...
...patina seems slightly worn. This summer NASA announced that the three Apollo 15 astronauts-David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden-had carried 400 unauthorized stamped envelopes to the moon and back, then let 100 of them out for sale through a German philatelist (TIME, July 24). The three never actually profited by the arrangement, but it raised a sour question of exploitation...
Four years ago when he was 30, William Irwin Thompson left his teaching post at MIT, dismayed at what he called the "mindless, liberal technocratic managerial vision" he found there. At York University in Toronto he became a professor of humanities and wrote At the Edge of History, a provocative little book greeted variously as "dazzling" and as "not so much an analysis of the decadence of our civilization as a symptom of its decline." Wrote one reviewer: "Thompson's Edge is to Charles Reich's The Greening of America what chess is to Chinese checkers...
Apollo 15 Astronaut Colonel James B. Irwin announced, somewhat mysteriously, that he had had "a spiritual encounter with God on the moon." That, said Irwin, was the reason he changed his mind about profiting from the sale of stamped envelopes he and fellow astronauts Colonel David R. Scott and Lieut. Colonel Alfred M. Worden had smuggled into lunar orbit. (All three were reprimanded, and Worden and Scott are being reassigned from astronautical duty.) Irwin retires from the service this month to concentrate on High Flight, Inc., a nonprofit religious organization. "I don't think my mistake will damage...