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Nuke power put in comics
THE ANTI-NK I .EAR HAND
BOOK. HI STEPHEN < Kom i
KAIANDERS PANTHEON
PRESS
“This is your captain speak
ing. Good afternoon and wel
come aboard Atomic Airways
We only have fuel for the early
stages of this flight, but we
think we can solve that en
route The other safety prob
lems may also be sorted out in
time. Our technical boys have
been working on them for 30
years, and they’ll let us know
if they come up with any
answers.
“As for sabotage, well, it’s
always a possibility. After all
we live in dangerous times.
But you’ll have noticed that
you're all handcuffed to your
seats and gagged, so the
chances are pretty remote.
Finally I’m sure you’d like to
know our destination. So would
we...Enjoy the trip.’’
With this curious introduc
tion. the reader is led into The
Anti-Nuclear Handbook, a
book which chronicles the
development of nuclear power
from the first atomic bomb to
present day and the authors
attempt to show why nuclear
power should be abandoned
The genius of Handbook is
that it makes fun of the
nuclear power industry, the
government and ourselves, but
in a non-offensive manner And
that is hard to do when one is
dealing with an issue as
explosive as nuclear power
The book is the third in a
series of what Pantheon calls
“Documentary Comic books.”
The history of nuclear power—
admittedly dry stuff—is the
documentary part
However, the material is
presented in comic strip form,
with the information coming at
you from the comic strip
characters and supplemental
information strewn in the
margins and just about every
where else. That's the comic
book part.
The book is intended to
inform and entertain It is also
intended to persuade and it
does all of these things No
matter what you think about
nuclear power, the book almost
forces you to laugh
For this and other
reasorib, The Anti-Nuclear
Handbook will probabl) en
courage more folks to find out
about nuclear power than
would a more technical,
documentary type chronical or
report
Brian O'Shea
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Halberstam traces pioneers in journalism
DAVID HALBERSTAM: THE
POWERS THAT BE. ALFRED
A. KNOPF.
David Halberstam's new
book The Powers That Be is an
extraordinary chronicle of the
rise in power and influence of
America’s communications
empires. It is not just the story
of the industry itself; it is a
portrait of those individuals
who created the industry
"The powers that be" are
the Luces, the Grahams, the
Paleys. the Chancellors Thev
are the Murrows. the Cron-
kites. the Bradlees and the
Palmers They are the men
and women that have made
mass communication their
life's work and have in turn
influenced the lifes of America
And then there are their
means of communication. The
newsapers. magazines, radios,
and televisions of America.
Halberstam chose to focus on
four of the most well-known
organizations; “C BS because it
has trouuionally represented
the best in broadcast journal
ism; Time because among
national magazines it reflects
something special in the
American character; The
Washington Post because it
has become a serious national
newspaper and because this is
in part a book about the road
to Watergate, and The Los
Angeles Times for those
reasons and also because it
played to large a part in the
career of Richard Nixon ”
Don’t let the fact that the
book is basicallv history fool
you into thinking that it’s dry
and don’t let the fact that it’s
over seven hundred pages long
fool you into thinking that it's
difficult to understand. On the
contrary, it is one of the most
interesting and well written
nonfiction books in a
long, long time
Who’d believe a magazine
would hide the truth from a
nation about the political
affairs of another major
nation, such as China, and
even rewrite their corres
pondents' reports in order to
present the publishers distort
ed view of his childhood home?
Time magazine under the
leadership (dictatorship 9 ) of
Henry Luce did just that. And
it was Time and Luce that
were greatly responsible for
the presidency of Eisenhower,
according to the author.
The story of Phil Graham
reads like a scenario. Take a
charming and brilliant gradu
ate from Harvard Law School
and marry him to the shy
heiress of a Washington
empire. Make him publisher of
a newspaper and the friend of
presidents. Then stand by and
watch him as a great mind
disintegrates until he has to be
put away and then mourn after
that great mind is blown away
by his own hand while his wife
stands in the next room
Sounds like a good novel, huh?
This is also in part the story
of the road to Watergate, and
it takes an author like
Halberstam to drive home the
fact that Watergate began long
before Nixon took office. It
began when a group of
California businessmen, includ
ing the publisher of The Los
Angeles Times, banded to
gether to elect a new
Republican senator from Whit
tier, Calif —Richard M Nixon
Nixon showed disturbing poli
tical tendencies from the start.
His campaign was pure
mud-slinging and even his
backers were disturbed, but he
was what the Times wanted
and so, he was what California
got. And in the end witn the
same backing he was what
America got too.
Much, much more could be
said about the research that
went into the book, about the
excellent style of the author
and about the subjects covered
in The Powers That Be. but I’ll
leave it at this—read the book
and enjoy an unforgettable
experience.
Staci Kramer
Book helps in job hunting
JOHN D. ERDLEN AND
DONALD N. SWEET: JOB
HUNTING FOR THE COL
LEGE GRADUATE. HEATH
AND COMPANY.
Here at the University,
literally thousands of us spend
years and years and thousands
and thousands of dollars to
earn our degrees, yet typically
we spend comparitively little
or no time on career planning.
As a consequence, a lot of us
reach the end of our senior
year without an idea in our
heads on what we want or need
to look for in a first job
Job Hunting tor the College
Graduate by John D. Erdlen
and Donald H Sweet is a
concise but indisposable guide
to successful job hunting
Written and designed for the
utmost in brevity and clarity,
Job Hunting for the College
Graduate is chock-full of rele
vant, no-nonsense information
on campus interviews, re
sumes, on-site interviews,
Help-Wanted ads. job-inquiry
letters, and a myriad of other
topioo
Erdlen and Sweet also
provide a master plan for how
soon-to-be graduates should
present themselves in an
effective and acceptable man
ner on paper, during the inter
view. when deciding upon the
job offer, and on the job.
More importantly they ana
lyze the job opportunities in a
multitude of fields, and give
specifics as to what it takes to
get a good job in the specific
fields
The authors also examine
important minority employ
ment issues and list the rights
they have to fair employment.
It is the most complete book
I have ever seen on the
subject.
Most importantly, it is
written by people who know
what the job situation is really
like The authors are men who
have hired many college
graduates for a number of
different kinds of jobs, and
hence there is a larger and
r L «o» f ' r'uot.l
the employer’s perspective.
It is critically important to
know the attitudes and strate
gies of employers, what
they’re looking for, what they
want, and why they do the
things they do
Erdlen’s and Sweet’s Job
Hunting for the College Gradu
ate is a comprehensive analy
sis of the problems facing a
new graduate, and a positive
step forward for its reader
toward his or her ultimate
goal—getting the job they
want
Ben Fugitt
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Advance to publish book
Advance, a campus action group, will publish a landlord-tenant
handbook in late August or early September, according to project
head Starr Wright
Wright said the handbook will cover such problems as what a
tenant can legally do if threatened with eviction
The now-defunct Student Government Association published
such a handbook in 1972 According to Wright. Advance’s
publication will be an updated and expanded version of the SGA
handbook
Wright said he was unsure of how much the hook will cost
students, since funding for the project has not been acquired
“We would prefer lo give it away," he said
The Atlanta Legal Aid Society, the Governor’s Office of
Consumer Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Responsive
Law in Washington. D C will review the handbook for accuracy,
Wright said
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