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...SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL by Hans Handler. Photographs by Erich Lessing. 272 pages. McGraw-Hill. $29.95. In 1580 the Habsburgs began importing strong, intelligent and graceful horses from the Iberian Peninsula to the town of Lippiza. Hans Handler traces the history of the Spanish Riding School, where the Lippizaner horses have always been trained, down through the centuries to its present site in Vienna. Erich Lessing's photographs are no substitute for watching the massed horses moving to the strains of Mozart, but this book is a monument to the disciplined beauty that classical horsemanship can achieve...
...grand and intricate caper, a hoax of hoaxes hatched on a Spanish island, ended last week in two Manhattan courtrooms. Author Clifford Irving, his wife Edith and Researcher Richard Suskind were sentenced to jail terms for fabricating an autobiography of Howard Hughes and selling it to the McGraw-Hill Book Co. for $750,000. In a federal court, Irving was given 30 months, Edith two months, with Edith going to jail first so that their two children will not be deprived of both parents at one time. Suskind, who helped with the research on the bogus manuscript, got six months...
...that power, it is pitching, which has been surprisingly good so far, that may well be the key to the Mets' season. Top Starter Tom Seaver (who won seven of his first eight decisions) and Bullpen Ace Tug McGraw are producing as anticipated, and the Mets have been getting unexpectedly strong performances from Rookie Jon Matlack (who won his first five). With the strongest lineup the team has ever had, Berra has a good chance to take the Mets into their second World Series in his first year as their manager...
...newspaper. As a result, the Herald Traveler, which depended on TV revenues, will cease publication and sell its assets to the Hearst newspaper chain. In an out-of-court settlement, Mexican-American groups engineered some revisions in Time Inc.'s proposed sale of its five TV stations to McGraw-Hill. The Chicano organizations extracted pledges from McGraw-Hill to show more concern for minority problems, and they caused one station, WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich., to be excluded from the sale, arguing that the deal violated FCC guidelines in giving McGraw-Hill too great a concentration...
...DINOSAUR FUND by VARTANIG G. VARTAN 391 pages. McGraw-Hill...