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...paroled on a burglary charge three weeks before Huyard's death, denies killing her. Family members on both sides say that the victim and accused had no reason to dislike each other. "If somebody would have told Naomi that boy was there, she would have gone anyway," says Isaac Huyard, one of four brothers who live on nearby farms. Herr's mother says Jimmy was asleep when she left for work on the day of the crime. John Herr, 60, an industrial custodian, returned from work at about 6 p.m., an hour or so after Naomi Huyard left...
Thirty years ago, Isaac Asimov completed his Foundation trilogy, a Gibbon-esque look at the decline and fall of an intergalactic empire. Asimov, who abandoned fiction in favor of science, has now expanded his work to a tetralogy with foundation's Edge (Doubleday; $14.95). The last volume of the trilogy ended with a question: Does a mysterious organization, capable of controlling human history, really exist in some secret galactic refuge? Edge opens with an answer: Of course. It then proceeds to describe the rivalry between the altruistic Foundation and two less noble competitors for the heart and mind...
...this year, 35 banks have failed, more than twice the post-World War II peak of 16 failures in 1976. William Isaac, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., told the A.B.A. gathering that the number of institutions on his agency's watch list of shaky banks had jumped to some 320, from 220 in January. While asserting that most of the banking system is still strong, both Isaac and C.T. Conover...
...Times ran a story in its magazine on here during the summer. That's more a kiss of death than appearing on the cover of SI. 2, Leasing's latest books are sci-fi, and it the committee wants that, well they just ought to was till my man Isaac reaches Nobel age in 15 years. By that time he will have written more books than Erle Stanley Garner and Franklin W. Dison by a bushel 12-1 on the lady with the Golden Notebook...
SPIRITS must be high in the Soviet Union these days. Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the launching that made Sputnik I the first man-made object to orbit Earth. In America, broad-minded thinkers like Isaac Asimov took the occasion to reflect optimistically on space exploration as mankind's first step towards a broader vision--"a view that presents Earth and humanity as a single entity." But Asimov's idealism has not infected American military leaders, who now plan to make space yet another theater of operations in the modern superpower cold...