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■ Delectations: Goals for Mankind: A Report to the Club of Rome on the New Horizons of Global Community (Dutton, $15; $6.95 paper), by Ervin Laszlo et al. The last chapter discusses the “current goals gap.” Would make a swell Easter present for Nelson Rockefeller. The Club, that is. . . . Ruth Carter Stapleton’s newest book is Experiencing Inner Healing (Word Books, $7.95), in which she continues to promote “faith imagination” and the ministry of emotional healing. Says Publishers Weekly: “She knows of liberation from a tyrannical past.” Word has it that at SALT II the Russians are going to demand that the U.S. jettison the B-l, the cruise missile, and Ruth.

had been screwed during the Twenties”; whose equally militant wife “helped the Socialist Party of Morningside Heights organize a soup kitchen”; who “got interested in what was then known as ‘the Movement,’ young labor leaders of the Twenties who were trying to organize industry at a time when it was pretty impossible to do so”; who “helped publish a law review dealing with labor law and farm problems,” which, alas, “was later listed as a Communist front organization”; who joined “a non-Marxist study group in Washington,” several members of which “were later accused of Communism.” There were plenty of young zealots in the 1920s and ’30s who thought and behaved much like this ultra-leftist Hiss, but not one of them would seriously have regarded the federal courts (those bastions of the exploiter-class!) as “the best hands” for themselves or anybody else to be in. Which was the impostor: Alger or Hiss?

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■ Delectations: Goals for Mankind: A Report to the Club of Rome on the New Horizons of Global Community (Dutton, $15; $6.95 paper), by Ervin Laszlo et al. The last chapter discusses the “current goals gap.” Would make a swell Easter present for Nelson Rockefeller. The Club, that is. . . . Ruth Carter Stapleton’s newest book is Experiencing Inner Healing (Word Books, $7.95), in which she continues to promote “faith imagination” and the ministry of emotional healing. Says Publishers Weekly: “She knows of liberation from a tyrannical past.” Word has it that at SALT II the Russians are going to demand that the U.S. jettison the B-l, the cruise missile, and Ruth.

had been screwed during the Twenties”; whose equally militant wife “helped the Socialist Party of Morningside Heights organize a soup kitchen”; who “got interested in what was then known as ‘the Movement,’ young labor leaders of the Twenties who were trying to organize industry at a time when it was pretty impossible to do so”; who “helped publish a law review dealing with labor law and farm problems,” which, alas, “was later listed as a Communist front organization”; who joined “a non-Marxist study group in Washington,” several members of which “were later accused of Communism.” There were plenty of young zealots in the 1920s and ’30s who thought and behaved much like this ultra-leftist Hiss, but not one of them would seriously have regarded the federal courts (those bastions of the exploiter-class!) as “the best hands” for themselves or anybody else to be in. Which was the impostor: Alger or Hiss?