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People who monopolize lanes for hours by swimming endless lengths side-stroke in the mistaken belief that they are exercising should use the small pool when the big pool is crowded. (They should also read a little paperback entitled Aerobics). Most swimmers get excellent exercise by swimming hard for 10 to 20 minutes, so that the turnover of swimmers may be more rapid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pool Impropriety Distresses Wylie | 10/19/1971 | See Source »

Yesterday's action was organized by the Ayer, Mass. Common Sense Bookstore Collective and a group of G.I.'s from the base here. A total of 23 persons participated in the distribution of the paperback edition of the Pentagon's massive study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Leaflets containing excerpts from the study were also handed...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 18 Are Detained at Ft. Devens For Pentagon Papers Giveaway | 10/1/1971 | See Source »

...author knows too that the most grueling suspense is generated not by mystery but by a long, slow wait for the inevitable. Partly for this reason, he seems about to make the kind of killing (Book-of-the-Month Club, record paperback advance, vast movie contract, etc.) that the Jackal hoped for from his far grimmer enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caveat for the General | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

Yeah Inc. By anybody's adding machine, Van Peebles is a successful man. Sweetback has grossed nearly $10 million. Yeah Inc., the one-man corporation he formed to finance Sweetback, is a busy business: there is the film and the sound-track album. A paperback of the movie is already "making some good bread." T shirts, sweatshirts and nighties announce I AM A SWEETBACK. This fall his play Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death opens on Broadway. Coming up: Sweetback douche powder. Boasts Van Peebles: "You are looking at a black conglomerate." But he still considers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Power to the Peebles | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

WHAT THE TREES SAID: LIFE ON A NEW AGE FARM by Stephen Diamond. 182 pages. Delacorte. $5.95 (paperback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Alternative Experience | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

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