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...UNFINISHED REVOLUTION (1917-1967) by Isaac Deutscher. 115 pages. Oxford University...
Shortly before he reported for duty with his reserve unit during the six-day Arab-Israeli war, Hebrew University Scientist Isaac Harpaz, 42, proclaimed victory over a less obvious threat to his country. For several years hybrid corn plants in Israel-and in several European countries-had been under attack by a mysterious disease that dwarfed their growth, roughened their leaves and often completely destroyed them. The disease has now been routed, Harpaz reported, by his discovery that a little procrastination in planting will pay large dividends in healthy corn...
...between the scientific and nonscientific communities -the "two cultures," as British Physicist and Author C. P. Snow calls them -politicians, educators, TV producers and scientists themselves have been trying to bridge it. No emissary to the nonscientific world has been more successful than a highly articulate biochemist named Isaac Asimov...
...closed to everyone in keeping with Trotsky' instructions. Fearful of exposing his collaborators to the wrath of Stalin, Trotsky insisted that his correspondence with the members of his still-born Fourth International should remain classified until 1980. The only scholar to evade this ban has been Trotsky's biographer, Isaac Deutscher, who was given permission to use the closed section of the archives by Trotsky's widow. In The Prophet Outcast, the third volume of his biographical trilogy, Deutscher quotes extensively from many of the documents which will not be made public until...
...task of achieving a real peace promises to be infinitely more protracted. After years of futile, ruinous enmity toward Israel, the Arabs conceivably might decide that their best hope for the future lies in neighborly relations between the heirs of Isaac and Ishmael. More probably, envenomed by their latest defeat, they could embark on a new orgy of irredentist fervor, thereby proving once more, as Radio Algiers put it last week, that "the only language between Israel and the Arabs is the language of iron and fire...