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Readers may be surprised to see that this week's BOOKS section contains 70 capsule reviews instead of the usual full-length critiques. The idea was born one day recently when Senior Editor Tim Foote and BOOKS Reviewer George Dickerson were examining the enormous fall list. "Let's do them all," said George, jokingly. "All right, let's," replied Foote, and assigned himself 16 books. Dickerson got 13 and Reviewer Ron Sheppard wound up with twelve; the rest were spread out among 18 other staffers. "There are so many books in the fall," says Foote. "And they...
...record is uneven. He opposed repeal of the 7% investment tax credit-and lost. He won on another question by persuading the Administration to come out against taxing the interest on state and municipal bonds. He sold Nixon on the idea of a computerized job bank that would list jobs offered by employers all over the country to aid in placement of the unemployed. On the other hand, the President sent to Congress a billion-dollar program to combat hunger, despite Burns' strenuous objections that it was unnecessary and cost too much. To intimates, Burns has characterized Nixon...
...Vernon was getting impatient. He was playing with his keys and looking around the room. I understood that he had come for more important business and I decided to skip the next couple of questions on my list...
Under the sponsorship of various Center members, the Center regularly supports the appearance in Cambridge of various foreign intellectuals whose message is characteristically anti-U.S., anti-capitalist, or both. The list in recent years has included Andreas Papandreou, Miguel Wionczek, Helio Jaguaribe, Celso Furtado, and many others. (Celso Furtado, just by the way, is one of those Brazilians we weren't supposed to invite). The appearance of these men is sponsored not because they are anti-U.S., but because they are scholars and intellectuals...
...current list brings to 93 the number of known listings. However, the Times reports, "It appears that the total number of blacklisted scientists is in he hundreds...