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...moustache, Mr. Cairnie usually sits in the far corner of a well-worn leather couch, skimming a catalogue or perhaps talking to a tutor, a Cambridge poet, or a student he knows well. His books, most of them first editions, stand in wall shelves or lie scattered at random on a large table in the center of the room. A shiny blue Anchor Books stand adds the one note of trimness and order to the place...
...construction worker named Joe Pritchett, the Exalted Cyclops of a local Ku Klux Klan. In the shack where the men had taken Aaron, police found stacks of White Citizens' Council literature-and a Bible. Why had they picked on Aaron? Said one: "We just wanted some nigger at random...
...Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage (Random House; $3.95). Evans, 52, a professor of English at Northwestern University, wrote the book with his like-minded sister, Cornelia Evans, 56, a writing consultant to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Their book has the same zestful flair that turned Bergen Evans into a national TV personality as the earnest, rapid-talking moderator of CBS's The Last Word (TIME...
...Donnelley & Sons. By Nov. 1, it will be distributed by Random House to bookstores in the U.S. and later abroad...
Columbia's innovation focuses on the basic problem of all radar: how to amplify the returning echo of the electromagnetic wave after it bounces off the target, without simultaneously amplifying the random electrical interference that is also picked up by the receiver. Heretofore, the usual method of improving reception has been the brute-force approach of multiplying the power of the signal. But this multiplication requires costly and cumbersome equipment, is impractical for such isolated sites as the arctic...