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...FIRST DAY OF FRIDAY by Honor Tracy. 246 pages. Random House...
ANIMALS IN AFRICA by Peter and Philippa Scott. 166 pages. Clarkson N. Potter. $12.50, and ANIMAL WORLDS by Marston Bates. 316 pages. Random House. $15. These volumes provide the armchair naturalist with some of the year's best animal photographs and the best substitute for a safari he is likely to find anywhere. Animals in Africa brings its lens to bear on all manner of African fauna, from elephants lumbering through the bush with ears spread like spinnakers to a striped chameleon inching its way into the center of a hibiscus flower. Animal Worlds, with photographs by Ylla, Fritz...
...John O'Hara. 405 pages. Random House...
...left hand the blindfolded subject holds a tiller by which he can swing the sound beam, searching for test objects-small wires, lengths of pipe, pieces of cloth-hung at random from the chamber's roof. When the beam hits a target, an echo comes back, and from the character of that echo an experienced listener can tell an amazing amount about the target...
...proveable, the Council is still not right to reject our application by taking for granted a law or rule which has not been enacted by the Faculty committee or the University. In saying this, we are assuming that the actions of the Council in such matters are not utterly random or unprincipled, but are supposed to be based on the laws and regulations of the University. Our association, of course, recognizes the power of the Faculty committee to enact any rule at any time and to make it applicable even in retrospect. However, we cannot see how we could...