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...Leap. The son of a struggling New York farmer, Russell Sage left home when he was twelve to work in a grocery store in Troy. He had already decided he would be the richest man in the world, spent one-third of his $4 monthly salary for night-school tuition, and read every book he could find. By 15, he was principal moneylender to the gilded youth of Troy...
Died. Robert Alexander ("Steve") Cochran, 48, Hollywood heavy (The Big Operator, The Deadly Companions), a brawny onetime shipyard worker who played movieland mobsters and occasional heroes, except for a surprising leap into Italian avant-garde as the lovesick mechanic in Antonioni's IlGrido; of pulmonary edema, aboard his 33-ft. ketch Rogue, while sailing the Pacific from Acapulco to Costa Rica with a crew of three Mexican women, who drifted helplessly for ten days after his death until they were rescued by a U.S. fishing boat off the coast of Guatemala...
...never can tell about Summer School; it's a good bet that one or two of the Assistant Professors SMITHs in the catalogue will turn out to be the type of lectures whom sleepy pleasure wonks leap out of bed at 8 a.m. to hear. Deferentially, the editors of the Summer News offer a few hot tips...
Then there is the mako, probably the flashiest fighting fish in the sea. A snaggle-toothed bruiser (record: 1,000 Ibs.) that roams far offshore in both the Atlantic and Pacific, the mako can swim at 40 m.p.h., bite clean through a 500-Ib.-test wire leader, leap 20 ft. out of the water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death...
...Pockets. Two decades ago Buber was almost unknown outside Jewish seminaries; today, paperback editions of his work are staples of college bookstores, and "I-Thou" is as familiar a spiritual catchphrase as Kierkegaard's "leap of faith," or Tillich's "ultimate concern." Deeply rooted in tradition, Buber spoke with an unmistakably contemporary voice. His stress on authentic human relations is a timely warning for a depersonalized world. His vision of man living on "a narrow ridge" of "holy insecurity" rings true for many concerned about the shadow of holocaust. But like many another phrasemaking prophet, suggests Dr. Ernst...