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...Fate of the Earth, still two weeks away from its official publication date, is already just such a highbrow blockbuster. This erudite yet passionate treatise on the danger of nuclear war attracted widespread attention when it first appeared two months ago in three successive issues of The New Yorker, where Schell is a staff writer. The series immediately became the principal manifesto for advocates of a nuclear-arms freeze, as well as an inspiration for numerous speeches, lectures, editorials and sermons. Alfred A. Knopf has already ordered a large second printing of The Fate of the Earth and plans...
Although its hard-cover publication by Alfred A. Knopf will not occur until April, one of the most talked-about books of the year is Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the World. First published in The New Yorker last month, it is an impassioned argument that nuclear weapons have made war obsolete and world government imperative. Astonishingly, some 40 new books on nuclear issues are scheduled to be published before the end of this year; Pocket Books is rushing into bookstores with 100,000 copies of Nuclear War: What's in It for You ?, a paperback primer...
...surprising dividend. Preceding the usual page after page of income and balance-sheet statistics was a sprawling, sunnily optimistic tour d'horizon of America itself, and the author was none other than Magazine Journalist and Novelist E.J. Kahn Jr., 65, a highly regarded staff writer at The New Yorker since 1937. The project, for which Kahn was commissioned by Manufacturers Hanover Chairman John F. McGillicuddy, and paid $10,000 plus expenses by the bank, is certain to elicit considerable skepticism in some quarters. But Kahn's commentary is also likely to become required reading for any businessman...
Several crowd members expressed the sentiment that Fortinsky, a Harvard student and native New Yorker, was not familiar with their crime problems and self-defense needs. "We're talking two different environments," one representative on the committee said...
...came to Harvard to pursue his doctoral work in entomology, and since then his relationship with Harvard has never wavered. He acquired his Ph.D. for his experimental study of the flight physiology of fruit flies in 1941. Leaning back in his chair and snickering, he remembers that the New Yorker cited his doctoral work "as one of the discoveries of the year that we could have done without...