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In the News: Robert F. Kennedy: The Myth and the Man, Victor Lasky’s unfriendly study, was delayed by the assassination; is now out with a new final chapter (Trident, $6.95). . . . Ota Sik, the man who started it all with his program of decentralizing socialism in the Czechoslovakian economy, outlines his theories in Plan and Market under Socialism, now available in English from International Arts and Sciences Press (108 Grand Street, White Plains, New York 10601). . . . First in-depth account of the Soviet response to Dr. Sik’s monkeyings is Czechoslovakian Journal, by the New York Times’ Harry Schwartz (Praeger, January).

Nothing being sacred any more, five British scholars have gone and done it to Winston Churchill. A. J. P. Taylor, J. H. Plumb and Basil Liddell Hart are among contributors to Churchill Revised, which critically reassesses Churchill’s abilities as politician, statesman, military strategist and author, as well as his very psyche (Dial, January, $5.95). . . . The Six Days of June 1967 are turned upside down to make a scary novel, If Israel Lost the War. It took three people to write it—Richard G. Chesnoff, Edward Klein and Robert Littell (Coward-McCann, February, $5.95). . . . Puzzling, the renewed interest in Soviet nastiness. Latest specimen is Confess! Confess!, Yehoshua Gilboa’s account of eight years (1940-48) in Russian prisons (Little, Brown, $6.95).

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In the News: Robert F. Kennedy: The Myth and the Man, Victor Lasky’s unfriendly study, was delayed by the assassination; is now out with a new final chapter (Trident, $6.95). . . . Ota Sik, the man who started it all with his program of decentralizing socialism in the Czechoslovakian economy, outlines his theories in Plan and Market under Socialism, now available in English from International Arts and Sciences Press (108 Grand Street, White Plains, New York 10601). . . . First in-depth account of the Soviet response to Dr. Sik’s monkeyings is Czechoslovakian Journal, by the New York Times’ Harry Schwartz (Praeger, January).

Nothing being sacred any more, five British scholars have gone and done it to Winston Churchill. A. J. P. Taylor, J. H. Plumb and Basil Liddell Hart are among contributors to Churchill Revised, which critically reassesses Churchill’s abilities as politician, statesman, military strategist and author, as well as his very psyche (Dial, January, $5.95). . . . The Six Days of June 1967 are turned upside down to make a scary novel, If Israel Lost the War. It took three people to write it—Richard G. Chesnoff, Edward Klein and Robert Littell (Coward-McCann, February, $5.95). . . . Puzzling, the renewed interest in Soviet nastiness. Latest specimen is Confess! Confess!, Yehoshua Gilboa’s account of eight years (1940-48) in Russian prisons (Little, Brown, $6.95).