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...Lore of Flight. Edited by John W.R. Taylor. 430 pages. Tre Tryclcare and Time Life Books. $30. From Leonardo da Vinci's arm powered aircraft design to the last entry (Zurich airport) in the book's splendidly detailed Encyclopaedic Index, this is the literary package best calculated to keep air-minded readers desk or rug-bound for weeks. What sets the book apart is not only how much it has packed into reasonably small compass, but the precision and beauty of its illustrations, including galleries of great flying machines from then...
...imagination has free rein at the beginning. The New York sequence with its shots of skid row hits harder than anything else in the picture. Still, Widerberg feels compelled to add a romance nipped at the bud and a cute little street urchin who teaches Joe the city's lore. Joe leaves to search for his brother, takes up with a veteran hobo, and heads west. Their journey plays like Huckleberry Finn without the cruelty, and by softening their occasional scrapes with reality, Widerberg weakens the logic of Joe's conversion to radicalism...
...barracks and filling stations, has brought a feminist riposte of sorts-the second annual edition of "The Liberated Woman's Appointment Calendar and Field Manual 1972." Compiled by two New York women journalists, the spiral-bound booklet is a compendium of feminist history, humor, sayings and survival lore...
...Days-the one year of a standard combat tour-is, among other things, a compendium of the special lore of Viet Nam, with its vocabulary of "dinks" and "loaches" (light observation helicopters). Glasser interweaves dual themes: the elaborate efficiency of the U.S. medical organization (98% of the wounded who make it to Japan survive) and the even more elaborate systems for killing, the insane ingenuity of war. Men mimic the machine's inventiveness. Pressed for high body counts-even given quotas-some units "buried their kills on the way out [on a mission] and dug them up again...
...Glamis is far from unique. Author Underwood's high-spirited book provides equally fascinating lore about Britain's other haunts. It tells which ghost is working which castle, describes the author's own investigations of the ectoplasmic phenomena, and, at the end of each of the 236 reports on haunted sites, lists the name of a comfortable nearby hotel...