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Forward Al MacMillan beat Carling goalie Dick Heller in a Carling man-down situation as the second period began...
...PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE by John Betjeman. 112 pages. Macmillan. $12.95. British Poet Laureate Betjeman has long been an amateur of architecture. Here he transcends the book's rather tired format to produce an essay that is sublimely confident of its delights and prejudices. Betjeman loves tiny Saxon churches whose masons "captured holy air and encased it in stone." Noting that some of his illustrations of modern buildings are "cautionary examples," he ends with a plea for the survival of the profession of architecture. "We should wish him well," Betjeman writes of the architect, "for he should...
...astonishing book. It explodes just about every long-accepted rule on the way we build housing projects. It shows a direct relationship between the design of a building and the amount of crime committed inside (TIME, Nov. 6). It also suggests a solution in its title: Defensible Space (Macmillan; $8.95). The author: Oscar Newman, 37, a tall, bushy-bearded architect, director of New York University's Institute of Planning and Housing. His guidelines are being adopted by HUD, the New York State Urban Development Corp., and city housing authorities in Chicago, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. In an interview with TIME...
...genetic charts showing the results of the crossbreeding, is one of thousands of examples of the learned, the witty and the arcane that fill the Encyclopedia Judaica, published earlier this year by Israel's Keter Publishing House and just now going on sale (at $500 a set through Macmillan) in the U.S. Sixteen volumes and 12,000 pages long, totaling more than 12 million words, it is the first major Jewish encyclopedia in any language in 65 years. The work was begun during the early 1930s in Germany but became one of the first casualties of Hitler...
...already notorious as an almost cinematic cliché: how the infant Jonathan came to Aviation Writer Richard Bach in a kind of dream vision; how Jonathan was foolishly rejected by a flock of famous publishers (including Harper & Row, Random House and Morrow); how the book was finally, faintheartedly launched by Macmillan with no advertising budget and almost no reviews (Publishers' Weekly, hardly the most demanding medium in the world, called it "ickypoo"). How Jonathan rose slowly on its own merits or demerits, over 18 months, finding an audience?at first mainly youthful denizens of the ever hip West Coast. And then...