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...Piece of Ice. For all its scientific, precision-tooled marvels, the Nautilus sometimes developed quirks that only homely ingenuity could resolve. A few months before the '58 transpolar run, a leak "no larger than a human hair" developed in the steam-condenser system. An agonizing search by experts failed to track it down. In a do-it-yourself mood, Commander Anderson had the crew pour 70 quart cans of "Stop Leak," a $1.80-a-can remedy for auto radiator leaks, into the Nautilus condenser system, and it stopped the leak that might eventually have cost the life...
...SEARCH (342 pp.)-C. P. Snow-Scribner...
...didn't like the erotic bits," Lord Rutherford told the young novelist one day in 1934. But otherwise, Britain's most famous scientist conceded, he liked The Search-a first novel by a young spectroscopist named Charles Percy Snow. The book was one of the first to take scientists at their own high estimate of themselves, it presented science itself as a religion, and it even mentioned Rutherford himself as a high pontifical character of unapproachable magnificence...
...Dimension. Ohio-born Dr. May, 49, a fellow of Manhattan's cumbrously named William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, got his Ph.D. from Columbia with a now classic thesis, The Meaning of Anxiety. He followed it with the more popular Man's Search for Himself, published in 1953. Already applying existential principles in his practice, he then learned what European analysts were doing, began working on Existence. Meanwhile, the confluence of German and Swiss Daseinsanalyse with a more literally existential school developed in Spain, France and Vienna led to the omnibus Barcelona Congress...
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, by Truman Capote. A long story and three short ones about the waifs and strays of the world who search for handholds and usually get their fingers stepped on. Holly Golightly, a good little bad girl, is the disarming and memorable heroine of the title story. Caparisoned in Capote's crisp, shining prose, she and her raffish companions seem like characters from a tawdry but real bedtime story...