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A major factor in breeding, zoos have discovered, is to provide the animal with surroundings as close to his own native habitat as possible. In the contrived gloom of The Bronx Zoo's "World of Darkness," badgers ramble into burrows and kit foxes scurry over "desert." In the new...
THE VERTICAL SMILE by Richard Condon. 334 pages. Dial. $6.95.
Richard Condon strikes a chord of universality at the very beginning of his new novel. Given enough time, and allowing for certain obvious exceptions-Moby-Dick and the Hardy Boys' Hunting for Hidden Gold come to mind-almost every novel since the invention of movable type could have been...
In The Vertical Smile he mocks a handsome and vacuous presidential hopeful, Duncan Mulligan, who must be the crookedest, most wooden-headed and hypocritical Wall Street lawyer not actually in jail. The candidate has been chosen by the Eastern establishment-that is, the Justice Department, the Mafia, Wall Street and...
Vertical Hold. The ITT action leaves unresolved one of the most crucial ambiguities in antitrust law: Does the Clayton Act, a keystone of the nation's antitrust policy for more than five decades, apply to conglomerates? The act clearly bans major acquisitions that "substantially lessen competition." It has been...