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NONFICTION 1. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1) 2. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (2) 3. The Making of the President '68, White (3) 4. Jennie, Martin (5) 5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (4) 6. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman (6) 7. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (8) 8. The Money Game,'Adam Smith'(10) 9. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (7) 10. My Turn at Bat, Williams
...JOBS AND POLITICAL POWER have become the goal. "There is a more serious concentration now on the hard issues of economics and politics" says Vernon Jordan, director of the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project. Jordan finds it hopeful that blacks have elected mayors in Fayette, Miss., and Chapel Hill, N.C., and the sheriff of Macon County, Ala. Those successes are partly counterbalanced by such setbacks as the defeat of black Councilman Tom Bradley in the Los Angeles mayoral race and the landslide election of a tough law-enforcement mayor in Minneapolis...
Died. Erika Mann, 63, German-born daughter of Novelist Thomas Mann, her self a highly regarded author noted for her powerfully anti-Nazi writings in the 1930s; of a brain tumor; in Zurich, Switzerland. Like her Nobel prizewinning father, Miss Mann was quick to speak out against Hitlerism, in 1933 was forced to flee Germany after writing and producing a satirical anti-Nazi revue, The Pepper mill. Beginning in 1936, she frequently traveled in the U.S., where she scathingly attacked the Nazis in School for Barbarians, Escape to Life and The Lights Go Down...
During the preparations for the Valentino funeral in 1926, Stanley blew into the Hotel Ambassador carrying a little bag. He knocked at the suite of Valentino's bereaved lover, Pola Negri, told the maid he was a physician and introduced himself to Miss Negri as a close friend of Valentino's. "Rudy would have wanted me to take care of you, my dear," Miss Negri later reported his saying. "You are very thoughtful," she replied...
...body. His associate, Assistant D.A. Armand Fernandes Jr., argued that to hold an inquest without an autopsy would be "like hitting a home run without touching first base." If an autopsy had been ordered soon after the accident, it might have determined such facts as what time Miss Kopechne died and whether she had suffered a concussion that prevented her from trying to get out of the car. The Edgartown medical examiner, Dr. Donald Mills, who ruled out the autopsy initially, says that Dinis agreed on the telephone, as late as the day Mary Jo was buried, "that in view...