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...scolding is surely familiar these days, coming not only from economists -Heilbroner is chairman of the department of economics at the New School for Social Research - but from politicians and editorial writers, to say noth ing of gasoline-station attendants. By now the poor patient knows Doc Heilbroner's gloomy figures practically by heart. Every ten years mankind's ener gy demands double. And even if they are met by extractions from granite or sea water or God knows what, thermal pollution will increase by 100% in the next couple of centuries, driving atmo spheric temperatures...
Choosing his 197 favorites out of so many, Stryker, now 80, offers many of these. What stands out for the reader today are the portraits. There is noth ing candid about them. The subjects have prepared a face to meet the world and are all the more revealing as a result. Paul Carter's formal view of a tuberculous family in New York is touched with an eerie stillness. But the exchange is certainly marked by what Stryker describes as "a natural regard for human dignity." Says Stryker: "Experts have said to me that's the face...
...think they're worse than the Government." Then he grew nostalgic. "The rallies we used to hold in Madison Square Garden were glorious. No one has ever been able to reproduce those rallies. They have rallies there, but noth ing like the old days...
Relegated to the Hearth. Tiger calls this particular kind of masculine affinity "bonding": the forging of strong emo tional ties between men that have noth ing to do with women. He contends that these male bonds go back to the origins of human society, owe much to man's animal genesis and are probably genetically determined. They must first have been formed, Tiger speculates, when man turned hunter - an event that occurred anywhere from 2,000,000 to 26 million years ago and that forever after relegated man's female companion to the responsibilities of the hearth...
...have built detectors that spot guerrillas by their slightest sounds or movements. They can literally sniff an enemy's presence by the very odors of his body, food or clothing. "What we are trying here," says Physicist R. D. Holbrook, who heads the U.S. contingent at MRDC, "is noth ing less than a systematic approach to the entire counterinsurgency problem. There's time to do in Thailand what we could have done elsewhere - including Viet Nam - if only we had started soon enough...