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...symbol of Israeli military proficiency. The man behind the eye patch, a laconic loner, is less well known. Now a number of fresh glimpses are provided in Moshe Dayan-A Biography, a 601-page study published in Israel last week and scheduled to be issued in the U.S. by Random House next fall...
...ride. The experiment is still considered a bit controversial in Wilton; but in 25 other suburban Connecticut towns that take 2,100 ghetto children from Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury, the state-financed Project Concern is accepted as a success. Project Concern's children are selected at random and exemplify the entire range of ghetto problems. Even so, their presence has not diluted the achievement of white children, nor has it caused any new disciplinary problems in the schools involved. A similar program in the Boston area, known as "Metco," now buses 1,600 black children to 30 different...
...rotation dates and other personnel data as guides, computer programmers at the base worked with more than 100 names -officers and enlisted men of assorted ranks-and winnowed out a group of nine. The authorities were really after a cross section of ages and grades rather than a true random sample. But when the give-and-take of courtroom selection was over, the final panel of five contained not a single officer. Instead there were two junior sergeants, one specialist five and two specialists four. The senior man, and hence the president, was only 23 years...
...naturally enough, is the Roman Catholic Church and its prosperous American branch. Five years ago, Business Journalist James Gollin (Pay Now, Die Later), a nonpracticing Jew, decided it was time to stop the guesswork and to start investigating the secret church accounts. He distills his results in Worldly Goods (Random House; $10), a fascinating book and the first reliable report on American Catholic wealth...
...Gang is hardly a major addition to Roth's literary output--although I'm sure the House of Random will do its damnedest to make us think otherwise--but it is a most valuable one. For there should be room on the shelves for minor works from major authors. Despite what Mailer would have us believe, to be engage need not be a full time occupation. It's also nice that, in this case, Roth should be the particular example at hand. Those who care to pretend that the seventies are nothing more but the dreadful fifties warmed over need...