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— Griffin Daily News Friday, November 28, 1975
E About books
Unusual reference books
Capsule reviews prepared by the
American Library Assn.
By Irene Piraino
Can you slice a banana
without peeling it? Can you
crush a beer can with one
hand? And when treated to
terrible service in a
restaurant, do you know how
to retaliate by leaving a nickle
tip under an overturned glass
of water?
A delightful new book called
“Sneaky Feats” tells you how
to accomplish these three
tricks, and 50 others, in
cluding such basics as blowing
perfect smoke rings, growing
a carrot upside down, and the
art of making paper water
bombs.
While the book may not be
recommended for your teen
aged son, it’s great for grow
nups who can more
realistically be expected to
confine their performance to
just the proper time and
place.
Subtitled “The Art of Show
ing Off,” and written by two
lively young magazine editors
Tom Ferrell and Lee
Eisenberg, “Sneaky Feats” is
one of three newly published
books catering to familiar
human drives that beset us at
age 13 (or younger) and may
stay with us for life.
The two other volumes are
“Encyclopedia of Graffiti,”
compiled by Robert Reisner
and Lorraine Wechsler, and
the “Coward’s Almanac,”
printed, of course, on yellow
paper.
Author-humorist Marvin
Kitman gives us a whole year
of wisdom and humor for the
chicken-hearted, a group that
includes those who fear
revolving doors, zippers and
computers. Liberally sprinkl-
What Americans are reading
Based on most requested books from the shelves of libraries in 150 cities around the country,
compiled by the American Library Association. (Distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
Fiction Non-Fiction
This Last Weeks This Last Weeks
Week Week On List Week Week On List
1 LOOKING FOR MISTER GOODBAR, 1
by Judith Rossner (Simon & Schuster, $7.95.)
2 RAGTIME, 2
by E.L. Doctorow (Random House, $8.95.)
3 LORD OF THE FAR ISLAND, 4
by Victoria Holt (Doubleday. $7.95.)
4 CURTAIN, 3
by Agatha Christie (Dodd, Mead & Co.. $7.95.)
5 THE MONEYCHANGERS, 5
by Arthur Halley (Doubleday. $7.95.)
e CIRCUS, 8
by Alistair Mac Lean (Doubleday, $6.95.)
7 SHOGUN, 7
by James Clavell (Atheneum, $12.50.)
8 GREEK TREASURE, —
by Irving Stone (Doubleday. $10.95.)
9 CENTENNIAL, 9
by James A. Michener (Random House,
$12.50.)
10 GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, 8
by Michael Crichton (Knopf. $7.95.)
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GRAFFITI
by Robert Reisner and Lorraine Wechsler (MacMillan Publishing
Co., 401 pages.) $7.95
SNEAKY FEATS,
by Tom Ferrell and Lee Eisenberg (Sheed & Ward. Inc., 159 pages.)
$2 95
by Marvin Kitman (Doubleday & Co.. Inc.) $4.95
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X-RAY of a coward’s nervous
Almanac” by Marvin Kitman.
ed with good drawings by Lou
Meyer and the quotations of
Robert Benchley and others
who chose not to be quoted,
the book reviews the history
of phobias, and turns up at
least a fear a day.
There is a day for review of
Milestones in the History of
Cowardice (the invention of
the white flag, for example);
a listing of Who’s Who in the
Coward’s Hall of Shame
(Chicken Little is cited for his
distinguished contributions to
meteorology); a calendar of
such special events as
National Office Fears Week;
even a bit of cautious
philosophy (“I am, therefore I
fear”).
The “Encyclopedia of Graf
fiti" is a fat book with more
system, from “The Coward’s
Illustrated by Lou Meyers.
than 4,000 examples of
worldwide graffiti catalogued
alphabetically from A to Z.
Basically what you’ll find in
the common, garden-variety
toilet, whether in the 18th cen
tury or the 20th, is humor,
speculation and declaration
that’s all below-the-belt in
content.
For the more serious
students of popular social
thought, there are good sec
tions on graffiti related to
peace, the Vietnam war,
liberty, revolution and
politics.
A good many of the il
lustrations were drawn from
the restrooms of colleges
throughout the country, which
means they not only have
some literary content but are
1 HELTER SKELTER, 1 6
by Vincent Bugliosi (Norton, $lO 00.)
2 SYLVIA PORTER'S MONEY BOOK, 2 8
by Sylvia Porter (Doubleday. $12.50.)
3 BREACH OF FAITH, 5 8
by Theodore H. White (Atheneum, $10.95.)
4 T.M.: DISCOVERING ENERGY AND 3 6
OVERCOMING STRESS,
by Harold H. Bloomfield (Delacorte, $8.95.)
5 TOTAL FITNESS IN 30 MINUTES A WEEK, - 2
by Lawrence E. Morehouse and Leonard Gross
(Simon & Schuster, $6.95.)
6 BERMUDA TRIANGLE, 9 8
by Charles Berlitz (Doubleday, $7.95.)
7 THE SAVE-YOUR-LIFE-DIET, 6 6
by David Reuben (Random House, $7.95.)
8 THE TOTAL WOMAN, 8 5
by Marabel Morgan (Revell, $5.95.)
9 BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES, 4 3
by David Niven (Putnam. $9.95)
10 CRAZY SALAD: SOME THINGS ABOUT 10 4
WOMEN,
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Syria may renew
peacekeep mandate
By United Press International
U.N. diplomatic sources say
Syria will renew the U.N.
peacekeeping mandate on the
Golan Heights if it gets a
Security Council resolution call
ing for new talks on an overall
Middle East peace settlement.
The sources said Thursday
Syria gave conditional approval
to the mandate in talks between
occasionally developed
progressively. “All the
world's a stage and the people
on it are poorly rehearsed” is
followed by “No, just poorly
directed”, and finally by “No,
just poorly cast”. The authors
apparently liked this because
they list it twice, once under
“philosophy” and once under
“theatre.”
There are some good snipes
at the system: “Alexander
Graham Bell is alive and liv
ing in New York and still
waiting for a dial tone.”
The Encyclopedia also
abounds in insults. “Brunetta
I grant you can give her swain
death, but tis not with her
eyes but with her ill breath”
dates from the 18th century
In a short introduction, the
authors make a brief for graf
fiti as the voice of the com
mon man. “As people sense
they are becoming more com
puterized, the solitary wall
writer will continue to ex
press himself with personal
statements that all say, ‘I
write, therefore I am.'”
That sounds good, but it
doesn’t explain the vanity
publishing on walls that
predates the computer by
many centures.
Couldn't it be that people
just enjoy writing things they
think are clever in public
places?
“Encyclopedia of Graffiti”
is not the best book on the sub
ject and probably not the last.
It’s not illustrated, indicating
that either the publisher
didn't want to spend the
money to put graffiti in their
place, or that the authors
decided it wasn't necessary.
In either case, for a $7.95 book
that’s too bad
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11-21-75 (TAPE NO II
U.N. Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim and Syrian President
Hafez Assad in Damascus
earlier this week.
But the sources said Syria
wants a Security Council
resolution linking the mandate
to a call for early negotiations
on an overall Middle East
peace settlement.
The mandate allows the
United Nations to station a
1,250-man peacekeeping force in
a buffer zone between Israeli
and Syrian forces on a 42-mile
long stretch of the rocky Golan
Heights.
The Council was to open
private consultation at the
United Nations on the mandate
at 10:30 a.m. EST, today with
Waldheim reporting on his talks
with Assad.
Waldheim, who wound up a
weeklong Middle East peace
shuttle Thursday, told reporters
during a stopover in London he
was “hopeful” the mandate
could be extended.
“There have been problems
concerning the renewal of the
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Angola next Vietnam?
By NEA/London Economist News Service
LUANDA - (LENS) -
Before slipping almost fur
tively out of Luanda on a Por
tuguese frigate last week, Ad
miral Leonel Cardoso, Por
tugal’s last high com
missioner in Angola, declared
he was handing over
sovereignty to the “Angolan
people.” There was not an
Angolan present to hear his
words. Within the next day,
Angola had two presidents and
two governments, each com
mitted to defeating the other
in battle It was a sorry end to
nearly 500 years of the Por
tuguese presence in Africa.
Admiral Cardoso said he
left with his head held high;
indeed, he laid the blame for
the thousands of deaths in
Angola over the past few
months on the powers which
were giving arms to the rival
movements The Portuguese
government may feel it has
made a point of sorts in stick
ing to the date, November 11,
on which it promised to give
Angola independence. But in
its determination to get out as
quickly as possible it has not
fulfilled its responsibilities
either to the 400,000 Por
tuguese settlers or to the
black Angolans who stay
behind.
The departing high com
missioner was on surer
ground in pointing to the fact
that foreign states have been
supplying increasingly
sophisticated weapons to the
rival Angolan nationalist
movements. The war Por
tugal has left behind —
between Dr Neto’s People’s
Republic based in Luanda and
mandate, but I have made
progress during my talks,” he
said.
“I am hopeful that the
Security Council — and the
decision is now with them —
will extend the peacekeeping
mandate before it expires.”
Authoritative sources in
Damascus said Thursday Syria
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and Pat Harrison (I-r) wished Mrs. Etta Pulliam a Happy Thanksgiving during a visit to the
Living Center of Griffin. They attend the Fun and Fantasy Nursery on Pleasant avenue.
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Republic led by Holden
Roberto and Jonas Savimbi
with its seat at Huambo
(Nova Lisboa) — is no longer
a matter of skirmishing
between badly armed
guerrilla groups.
The Soviet Union first, and
now the United States and the
other backers of the Roberto-
Savimbi regime, have chang
ed that. The untrained
Angolans on both sides have
no idea how to use many of the
weapons that have come in;
so foreigners have had to be
brought in too. Angola has
become a proxy battlefield
between the major powers.
In his speech on in
dependence day Dr. Neto
made it clear that his party
would organize Angola along
marxist lines, but said it
would follow a non-aligned
policy in foreign affairs. This
is the real test. The massive
military support the Soviet
Union and its Communist
allies have given to the
Popular Movement was
would agree to renew the
mandate for another six
months. U.N. diplomats predict
ed Syrian consent to an
extension of at least two
months to avoid a crisis.
Diplomats generally agreed
that major hostilities could
flare almost immediately if the
U.N. force is withdrawn.
responsible for the progress
its forces had made until the
past three weeks.
There are other African in
dependence movements which
have received Communist aid
and yet have not subsequently
invited the Russians to es
tablish bases on their
territory. But Angola’s
strategic position on the
Atlantic coast, and its good
harbors near the Cape ship
ping routes, put it in a special
category. The Russians would
certainly try hard to establish
their influence in a marxist
Angola.
This is the fear which has
prompted both China and
America to back Dr. Neto’s
opponents. Nor is it surprising
that South Africa is at least
turning a blind eye to the
help in supplies and trained
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Neto side over the South West
African border. Angola will
play a key part in the hopes of
detente between South Africa
and the black African coun
tries; and a government under
Dr. Neto would be unlikely to
help that detente.
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