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...recruited to help thwart an ingenious Communist scheme to penetrate U.S. security. The plot involves a trip to the Greek island of Mykonos, and MacInnes evokes a picture of its windswept charm, just as in previous books she evoked the charm of Brittany, Venice and Berlin. Despite the current mania for Bondian gadgetry, her spies still hide their microfilms in hollowed-out tie clasps; neither her heroes nor villains spill gore, and her hussy enemy spies suggest, but only suggest, that their heels are slightly rounded...
...TIME, July 2), the summertime preschooling program for five-and six-year-olds financed by federal anti-poverty funds. Like Head Start, they were pioneered by private foundations, then picked up by Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity. Under the $2.5 million Government program-which, in the mania for rah-rah labels, Shriver calls Upward Bound -about 2,500 high school kids are enrolled in eight-week summer-training courses at 17 colleges, while another 25 projects are still privately financed. The Tragic View. Like Columbia's Double Discovery, the projects pluck kids out of stifling home...
...this some glittering casino, where fortunes change hands on the turn of a card, sending dinner-jacketed bankrupts out onto the beach to blow their brains out? Far from it. This is the U.S.'s latest mania: slot-car racing...
...With the coming of this century, they were generally a means to make posters, illustrations and other hoi polloi images. Most serious artists would scoff at making them in preference to oils. People did buy "collector's prints," fussily perfect etchings of architecture and landscapes that reflected more a mania for the historic past than for the present scene. But that was no more serious than collecting cut glass. The exploding market for modern art has destroyed that indifference...
...broadcast booth, he was indeed some rambler, take it from Berra. He could not resist telling TV fans in his cornpone drawl every last detail of what they could see for themselves. Moreover, with a journalist's eye for firsts and a statistician's mania for the minutiae of baseball, he was fond of confiding to his listeners that, say, the bunt that had just been witnessed was the first ever laid down by a left-handed rightfielder in an August night game with two men on base and one out. In the few moments when...