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Until the discovery of complex interstellar molecules, astronomers were convinced that ultraviolet radiation and cosmic rays would quickly disintegrate any stray organic molecules that might form in deep space. Now they know that such molecules-which are essential to terrestrial life-can survive between the stars, apparently shielded by nebular dust. Indeed, Radio Astronomer David Buhl, one of those who found formaldehyde last year, thinks that organic molecules exist in considerable abundance in interstellar space. If so, he says, "life similar to ours" may well have evolved elsewhere among the 100 billion stars of the Milky...
...Village. They report on the actual manifestations of that life-style-the drugs, the communal living, the Be-Ins, the street life-as well as the community that was growing up around it and the key figures who were helping to bring it all together. Personalities now quite familiar stray casually across the pages-Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Country Joe and the Fish, Timothy Leary. Everything is new and exciting in McNeill's eyes, and he talks about the community's development as if it were a shining, delicate toy, to be handled carefully and with restraint...
...standard "big caper" thriller (Topkapi, Rififi) in which a hungry hood just sprung from Sing Sing decides to strip a whole luxury Manhattan apartment house over a Labor Day weekend. He assembles a team of specialists to cut the alarm wires, finger the Klees and terrify any stray remaining tenants. The gimmick is that all the conspirators' haunts are bugged by various government agencies. Though it means that everything from a candy-store pay phone to Central Park itself has to be tapped, almost the whole novel consists of tape-recorded conversations instantly fungible as movie dialogue...
...Paul H. Ehrlich, of Stanford University, warns political activists not to stray from the "real" issues of Vietnam, poverty, and racism with a pious concern for the environment...
...cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence, an awareness of the constant surprise of life, which one rarely finds...