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Interest in the Mafia knows no social or intellectual boundary. The Harvard Business Review has included an instructional primer entitled "How lock out the Mafia." A recent issue of Commentary carried a lengthy article entitled "Browsing in Gangland" by Joseph Epstein, who invoked such disparate sources as Sigmund Freud and Al Capone to prove that "we are all hooked on crime, because in our innermost beings most of us partly wish to be gangsters ourselves...
Like a vapor trail in a clear winter sky, a trace of the supersonic transport lingers on. Congress shot down the SST last spring after a titanic propaganda battle between environmentalists and the aerospace industry. But one weapon in the fight, a pro-SST primer published in 1969, is still being used in some of the nation's elementary schools...
Desperate Attempt. Sniffing and sipping hot tea while he fought off a cold, Bobby began the second game by boldly launching an early attack without first castling his king into a protected corner-a basic defensive maneuver taught in every chess primer. That indiscretion proved costly; it ultimately gave Petrosian an opportunity to pin Fischer's exposed king in a devastating crossfire. Backed into a corner after the 32nd move, Fischer pondered his plight for ten minutes and then resigned. His win streak ended at 20 straight, Bobby suddenly seemed to lose his momentum...
...berserk wit. It takes healthy cognizance that the TV generation is into games Dick and Jane never played. Fargo North Decoder, is a crack word detective, Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered TV chef, whose recipes become a kind of primer. There are parodies of soap operas, TV quiz shows (Wild Guess) and the film 2001, but some of the sassiest material seems lifted from the "Chitlin'," or black vaudeville circuit...
...activities suggested in the booklet are as innocuous. Young ecoactivists are urged to check the contents of detergents used by their mothers and "encourage your family to change brands and select ones which do not create as great a pollution threat." Sounding a bit like a primer for Red Guards, the booklet also advises children to "photograph every pollutant detected"-not only results of their own experiments but any debris found behind factories, stores and offices or in the streets, parks and rivers. Reporting the results of pollution tests to the proper authorities will create a stir, the kids...