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...Tuesday afternoon, Harvard ski team captain Ben Steele stole into a paperback bookstore on Mass Ave. Why was he smiling so? With some advice whispered to him by a tan, dark-haired woman from Woodstock, Vt., he made his choice from the fiction rack. A glance at the titles before the salesman slipped the two slim tomes into a bag seemed a clue. If the titles did not exactly tell a tale, they hinted at one. Steele, ever the mild-mannered, wild blond-haired, slight-of-limb, mightily-muscled, bespectacled young hawk, tucked his new bought copies of Deliverance...
PATHWAYS TO MADNESS by JULES HENRY 477 pages. Random House. $10. Paperback...
Pathways to Madness, published last year and now issued in paperback, is Anthropologist Jules Henry's application of that approach to five American families touched by madness. Henry, who died in 1969 at age 65, reached beyond the family portraits to apply the new psychiatry to American culture...
...message is contained mainly in a paperback "biography" called The Ultimate Frontier, which he wrote under the name of Eklal Kueshana. In it, Kieninger predicts that economic depression and severe social upheaval will hit the U.S. in the mid-1970s, followed by an awful war and massive earthquakes at the turn of the century. By 2001, mankind will be virtually destroyed-but not Kieninger's followers...
...THOMAS PYNCHON 760 pages. Viking. $15. Paperback...