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...Fate of the World. First published in The New Yorker last month, it is an impassioned argument that nuclear weapons have made war obsolete and world government imperative. Astonishingly, some 40 new books on nuclear issues are scheduled to be published before the end of this year; Pocket Books is rushing into bookstores with 100,000 copies of Nuclear War: What's in It for You ?, a paperback primer on the subject, written by Roger Molander, founder of Ground Zero, a nuclear-education group...
Ronald Reagan was wearing a dark blue suit with a white handkerchief deftly planted in his breast pocket-the standard uniform of many a presidential tour. But he was also wearing a pair of rubber rain boots, hastily borrowed from a local farmer named Greg Miller. The occasion: a quick stop in Fort Wayne, Ind., where for a few minutes last week the President joined a crew of flood-control workers in passing sandbags to be stacked along the muddy banks of the swollen St. Mary's River...
...interval between hard-and soft-cover editions may be a thing of the past. Traditionalists like Random House have begun issuing simultaneous clothbound and paperback editions. Nobody's Angel, by picaresque Novelist Thomas McGuane, is being issued with 5,000 Papas and 30,000 Mamas. Bantam, Ballantine and Pocket Books, three major mass-market houses, shortcut the hard-cover publishers with their own original titles. Jerzy Kosinski's just published Pinball is appearing as a Bantam Papa (5,000), Mama (150,000), with babies yet to be determined. Says Stuart Applebaum, director of publicity for Bantam: "For many...
...happier aid for salt watchers: Mattel Electronics' new Diet Trac, a pocket computer specially designed to keep track of your cholesterol, caloric or sodium intake. Just tell it your nutrient goals, keep it up to date on what you are eating, and it will do the counting for you, down to the last milligram. Properly programmed, it will even send you a warning BEEP, BEEP, BEEP if an overdose of sodium is imminent...
...alive." Usher comments.... Usher also managed to keep himself alive during the tournament when he was confronted with a would-be assailant in the affluent Los Angeles suburb of Westwood one night. Approached from behind by a man who coveted the team's money in Usher's front left pocket, the tennis coach swung a quart-size bottle of V-8 juice and knocked the other man out cold. Although he field a complaint when the police arrived, Usher has yet to hear what action is pending...