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AMREX is the brainchild of Gerald Jackson, 43, a former real estate agent and farmer. He developed the concept of AMREX while teaching real estate at the University of California at Berkeley. In the course of his research he discovered that local ownership of a random sample of prime property in the Los Angeles area had dropped from 90% in 1945 to close to 40% by 1965. Deciding that such absentee buying could be better handled through a central exchange of sorts, Jackson started a West Coast exchange in 1968 with a local real estate firm. Though business was uneven...
Pilobolus, a book of photographs by Tim Matson, is published by Random House...
Shambhala/ Random House...
...another major innovation, all admissions officers will participate in random screening of applicants, Federman said. In the past, most of the screening took place within the subcommittees...
Another lovely legacy of old Russia is Chicken Kiev, a dish too seldom served in American homes or restaurants. Carl Jerome's The Complete Chicken (Random House; 247 pages; $12.95) should provide a rise in fare. The author, who has been a teaching and writing associate of James Beard's, ennobles the plebeian poulet in such great incarnalations as demi-deuil, en brioche and bollito misto, all sagely laid out. Jerome also offers some offbeat recipes for Southern fried chicken that will stir sizzling debate in Dixie...