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■ January Books. Touted as controversial: Admiral Elmo Zumwalt’s memoir, On Watch (Quadrangle, $10). . . . Jean Lacouture profiles Malraux for Pantheon ($12.95), and Malraux ruminates about Picasso’s Mask (Holt, $10). . . . Otis L. Graham Jr. sees us moving Toward a Planned Society, likes what he sees, credits Roosevelt and—Nixon (Oxford, $7.95; paper, $2.95). . . . Daniel Bell’s The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism will generate major reviews (Basic, $12.95). Same for Donald Barr’s The Presumptuous Schoolbooks, also from Basic ($10.95). Still another important one from Basic, Nathan Glazer’s Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, takes a dim view of “affirmative action” ($10.95). . . . Reissued: Lucky Lindy’s Spirit of St. Louis (Scribner’s, $12.50). . . . Abraham J. Briloff, the scourge of shady accountants, exposes a few more in More Debits than Credits: The Burnt Investor’s Guide to Financial Statements (Harper, $12.95). For the same house, Hanson W. Baldwin reviews WWIIupto Pearl Harbor in The Crucial Years: 1939-1941 ($16.95). . . . Herman Kahn’s latest scenario embraces The Next 200 Years (Praeger, $8.95; paper, $3.95). . . . Patrick J. Buchanan tries to settle the problem of Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories for Quadrangle ($8.95).

■ New York Post owner Dorothy Schiff is limned by Jeffrey Potter in Men, Money, and Magic (Coward, $10.95). . . . Michael Grant reappraises The Fall of the Roman Empire. Heavily illustrated (Potter; $12.95 to March 31, then $14.95). . . . Jack Valenti calls erstwhile boss LBJ A Very Human President (Norton, $9.95). For the same house, another ex-presidential aide, Clark R. Mollenhoff, looks back sourly on his years with Nixon in Game Plan for Disaster ($9.95). . . . Up from Nigger is how Dick Gregory characterizes his odyssey (Stein & Day, $8.95). . . . Hedrick Smith, ex-N. Y. Times man in Moscow, portrays The Russians (Quadrangle, $12.50).

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■ January Books. Touted as controversial: Admiral Elmo Zumwalt’s memoir, On Watch (Quadrangle, $10). . . . Jean Lacouture profiles Malraux for Pantheon ($12.95), and Malraux ruminates about Picasso’s Mask (Holt, $10). . . . Otis L. Graham Jr. sees us moving Toward a Planned Society, likes what he sees, credits Roosevelt and—Nixon (Oxford, $7.95; paper, $2.95). . . . Daniel Bell’s The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism will generate major reviews (Basic, $12.95). Same for Donald Barr’s The Presumptuous Schoolbooks, also from Basic ($10.95). Still another important one from Basic, Nathan Glazer’s Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, takes a dim view of “affirmative action” ($10.95). . . . Reissued: Lucky Lindy’s Spirit of St. Louis (Scribner’s, $12.50). . . . Abraham J. Briloff, the scourge of shady accountants, exposes a few more in More Debits than Credits: The Burnt Investor’s Guide to Financial Statements (Harper, $12.95). For the same house, Hanson W. Baldwin reviews WWIIupto Pearl Harbor in The Crucial Years: 1939-1941 ($16.95). . . . Herman Kahn’s latest scenario embraces The Next 200 Years (Praeger, $8.95; paper, $3.95). . . . Patrick J. Buchanan tries to settle the problem of Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories for Quadrangle ($8.95).

■ New York Post owner Dorothy Schiff is limned by Jeffrey Potter in Men, Money, and Magic (Coward, $10.95). . . . Michael Grant reappraises The Fall of the Roman Empire. Heavily illustrated (Potter; $12.95 to March 31, then $14.95). . . . Jack Valenti calls erstwhile boss LBJ A Very Human President (Norton, $9.95). For the same house, another ex-presidential aide, Clark R. Mollenhoff, looks back sourly on his years with Nixon in Game Plan for Disaster ($9.95). . . . Up from Nigger is how Dick Gregory characterizes his odyssey (Stein & Day, $8.95). . . . Hedrick Smith, ex-N. Y. Times man in Moscow, portrays The Russians (Quadrangle, $12.50).