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Monitor articles for October 07, 1983
- News In Brief
- Trekking from South Pole to North, To the Ends of the Earth, by Sir Randulph Fiennes. New York: Arbor House. 547 pp. $17.95.
- Olson's poetry: an attempt to grasp the history of human thought, The Maximus Poems, by Charles Olson. Edited by George F. Butterick. Berkeley, Cali...
- News In Brief
- Trouble strikes Soviet space program
- Informed and vivid look at life in China today
- New adventures for a storybook cricket, Chester Cricket's New Home, by George Seldon, illustrated by Garth Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giro...
- Mending driveway cracks and silencing squeaky floors
- America's first 60 years The Vineyard of Liberty, by James MacGregor Burns. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 703 pp. $9.95.
- Ninth-graders search out the news, First the Good News, by Judie Angell. Scarsdale, N.Y.: Bradbury Press. 147 pp. $9.95. Ages 12 and up.
- Fiction: the best of the current international-intrigue thrillers, Albatross , by Evelyn Anthony. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 240 pp. $13.95. The...
- Walesa's moderation mobilized Poland - and earned a peace prize
- News In Brief
- News In Brief
- Spirited illustrations spark text, Simon's Book, by Henrik Drescher. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. 32 pp. $10. Ages 5-8.
- Mozambique: preparing to dump Moscow for Western aid?
- An incisive, fascinating series on 'The Oil Kingdoms'
- Fast-paced mystery plus computer terms, Bug Scanner and the Computer Mystery , by Walter Olesky, illustrated by Anthony Accardo. New York: Walker &...
- Floats, flags, trumpets, trombones . . . Parade, by Donald Crews. New York: Greenwillow Books. (Pages unnumbered.) $9.50. Ages 3-6.
- Centennial edition of boy's how-to book, The American Boy's Handy Book, by D.C. Beard. Boston: Nonpareil Books/David R. Godine. 441 pp. $9.95. Paper...
- Take the edge off winter's cold - and your bills - with insulation
- Chronicle of a 283-year-old tree, Oak and Company, by Richard Mabey, illustrated by Clare Roberts. New York: Greenwillow Books. 22 pp. $9.50. Ages 5...
- News In Brief
- Big deals are always on the luncheon menu for Armand Hammer
- Central America edges toward peace talks
- Reagan flexibility shows results
- News In Brief
- Protected from life's realities or proving them?
- Producer tries to fill gaps in our knowledge of the Arab world
- Trying to like football
- From unsung pioneers, a new slant, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, by Lillian Schlissel. New York: Schocken Books. 262 pp. $8.95.
- Shamir builds a shaky coalition in Israel
- Empathetic look at French writer Loti, Pierre Loti - the Legendary Romantic, by Lesley Blanch. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 336 pp. 15.95.
- Home ownership dream fades in face of uncertain market. Steep costs, changing life-styles turn many Americans to renting
- Home computer boom losing its thunder
- Yearbooks offer a kind of 'annual newspaper' of world events
- What, you saw Australia II but not the chowder race?
- Dangerous waste - buildup continues
- News In Brief
- 7th grader becomes a winner, Beanpole, by Barbara Park. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 147 pp. $9.95. Ages 11 and up.
- An ever-bigger slice of the world's budget is going to the military
- News In Brief
- Golding's Nobel prize: link to Walesa
- Groups prod 'secretive' Britain to make more information public
- Ghetto architecture: an exhibition of makeshift design
- A total test ban?
- Mending driveway cracks and silencing squeaky floors
- Blacks in GOP set agenda as 1984 elections draw near
- The Merger Express in big US railroads: and now there are 6
- Historical novel of love and war, Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom, by Katherine Paterson. New York: Lodestar/Dutton. 229 pp. $11.95. Age 12 and up.
- News In Brief
- James Watt's unexpected vacation spells 'resignation' to some
- Reagan OKs toned-down Radio Marti
- Growing up in Los Alamos during WWII, Los Alamos Light, by Larry Bograd. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux Inc. 168 pp. $11.95. Ages 11 and up.
- News In Brief
- Pitchers rule early playoff games; pressure exceeds that in Series
- News In Brief
- A crop of Andropov biographies - marred by speculation but useful, Yuri Andropov: A Secret Passage into the Kremlin, by Vladimir Solovyov and Elena...
- Memoir from opera star Domingo, Placido Domingo - My First Forty Years, by Placido Domingo. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 192 pp. $15.95.
- Paterson's books: realism with hope
- Traveling on the Trans-Siberian Express
- The invention of childhood
- Pym's first novel is finally in print stateside Some Tame Gazelle, by Barbara Pym. New York: E. P. Dutton. 252 pp. $13.95.
- News In Brief
- Argentine factor
- News In Brief
- Solvent firms that go bankrupt: cost cutting doesn't cut with labor
- The domestic side of diplomacy, Up in the Park, by Elizabeth Shannon. New York: Atheneum. 358 pp. $17.95.
- Engaging horse tale, War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo. New York: Greenwillow Books. 148 pp. $9.50. Ages 11 and up.
- Katimavik brings together Canadian students and isolated townspeople
- Population, immigration, and the US