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...inclination is to go with Wood Memorial winner Air Forbes Won, and not just because of the name. With two Derby winners in his immediate family--Bold Forbes and Northern Dancer--Air Forbes Won has the pedigree. And for history's sake. Pleasant Colony, who went two-for-three in the Triple Crown last year, also won the Wood in his final prep for the Derby. Add to these assets the fact that Air Forbes Won has both his eyes, all his teeth, and four sound legs as of this writing...
...ingenuity and aesthetic daring, some charge the firm with a bent for a dehumanizing bigness. Some of its glassy towers-the Worcester (Mass.) County National Bank, for instance-loom large indeed. But while many big new buildings, in the name of progress, merely take, Roche's buildings give-pleasant plazas or little parks and improved working conditions. Union Carbide's complex is only four stories high. Conoco, near Houston, consists of three-story buildings clustered around an artificial lake. General Foods, in Rye, N.Y., in harmony with surrounding residential buildings, is seven stories high...
After a while, though, the conversation, just like that pleasant buzz that inevitably turns into cotton mouth, couldn't help but come back to the present...
...done in four novels and an earlier collection of stories, Author Alice Adams, 55, continues to specialize in heroines who cannot be hyphenated. Most of the ones in To See You Again live in San Francisco (as does Adams), but they are there because of job opportunities and pleasant surroundings, not drugs, macrobiotics or hot tubs. Surrounded by hedonistic enticements, they still experience the tugs of conscience. They are at an awkward age, stranded somewhere between hip and square, liberated enough to take younger lovers and conventional enough to worry about the consequences...
...setting of Bronx Primitive seems strange turf for the Yankee Clipper of the travel book (New York, Places and Pleasures; England's Green and Pleasant Land). In fact, she is at home in every sense. Kate is not short for Katherine but an alteration of Kaila, the name her Polish-Jewish parents gave her when she was born in Warsaw nearly 70 years ago. Simon took her first trip at age four, in steerage, aboard the Susquehanna, bound for New York City. There she grew up in neighborhoods where English had many accents...