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...room and board) to try Gallwey's most eminent competition. By California standards, it is just down the road, at Coto de Caza near Laguna Beach, a 5,000-acre mission-cum-tennis college presided over by Vic Braden, 47. Though Braden bears a faint resemblance to a vest-pocket Buddha and has a graduate degree in psychology, his methods epitomize two current hopes of Western civilization?a sense of humor and trust in technology...
...Yourself Animated Cartoon Film Program. Ever wondered what was on the other side of Central Square besides the MIT geeks with pocket computers and the NECCO factory? Well, there's a little hole in the wall up Main St. from Central Square that shows movie shorts anb animations. They're called Off the Wall, and in living memory they've never failed to string together anything less than brilliant shorts. It's a coffeehouse-art gallery with a screen up in the corner, and the subway rumbles underneath every 20 or so; and what with the various exotic tea smells...
...native of a sleepy town in Niigata prefecture, Kaku-san went to Tokyo at the age of 15 with only a grade school education and less than $3 in his pocket. By the time he was 19, the cocky, hardworking Tanaka owned a contracting business. During World War II, his firm was big enough to handle a $20 million contract for the Japanese army in Korea. In 1947 he became a member of the Diet by bankrolling his way through a lower house election...
Europe. No longer. He now seeks escape and adventure, and tour operators, quick to realize the potential of the market, have been replacing their pocket guides with pocketa-pocketa packages. "There's absolutely an amazing number and variety of adventure tours on the market," says Jim Transue, an editor of Travel Weekly. "It may be the fastest-growing part of the business...
...niken and other writers like Gerhard R. Steinhauser (Jesus Christ: Heir to the Astronauts. Pocket Books. $1.75) are avidly exploiting age-old yearnings. As the schlock merchants of fiction science, they peddle an old cosmological recipe: simply ad astra, mix feverishly and half bake. Naturally, their theories are highly vulnerable to anyone who, like Ronald Story, takes the time to examine them...