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Visions and Revelations: George Kennan offers the current Administration a “grand design of American foreign policy” in his latest book, The Cloud of Danger: Current Realities of American Foreign Policy (Little, Brown, $8.95). . . . Also on the market now is William Satire’s novel of political intrigue, Full Disclosure (Doubleday, $10.95), providing insight into the machinations of power and a moving story of a blinded President. . . . A sneak peek into 1978 reveals William F. Buckley Jr.’s new novel, a sequel to Saving the Queen, scheduled for March publication. Title: Stained Glass. . . . With energy conservation on everybody’s mind these days, experts and laymen alike are putting their two cents’ worth into print. Richard Stein, professor of Architecture at Cooper Union, stands out from the crowd with his very effective Architecture and Energy (Doubleday, $12.95).

Vacation Time: Feeling uncoordinated? Unable to return those drop shots? Don’t despair. Take some expert advice from Vic Braden and Bill Bruns in their big, glossy Vic Braden’s Tennis for the Future (Little, Brown, $12.95). . . . If the physical route to spiritual satisfaction is not your game, let Paul Kurtz—editor of The Humanist, professor of philosophy at SUNY, and a happily married man—explain how you too can achieve a meaningful existence in Exuberance: A Philosophy of Happiness (Prometheus Books, $8.95). . . . And for those long, lazy days beside the sluggish Housatonic, you will want to have Harold Blaisdell’s The Art of Fishing With Worms and Other Live Bait (Knopf, $10), both for practical advice and for pleasurable diversion when the fish just aren’t biting.

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Visions and Revelations: George Kennan offers the current Administration a “grand design of American foreign policy” in his latest book, The Cloud of Danger: Current Realities of American Foreign Policy (Little, Brown, $8.95). . . . Also on the market now is William Satire’s novel of political intrigue, Full Disclosure (Doubleday, $10.95), providing insight into the machinations of power and a moving story of a blinded President. . . . A sneak peek into 1978 reveals William F. Buckley Jr.’s new novel, a sequel to Saving the Queen, scheduled for March publication. Title: Stained Glass. . . . With energy conservation on everybody’s mind these days, experts and laymen alike are putting their two cents’ worth into print. Richard Stein, professor of Architecture at Cooper Union, stands out from the crowd with his very effective Architecture and Energy (Doubleday, $12.95).

Vacation Time: Feeling uncoordinated? Unable to return those drop shots? Don’t despair. Take some expert advice from Vic Braden and Bill Bruns in their big, glossy Vic Braden’s Tennis for the Future (Little, Brown, $12.95). . . . If the physical route to spiritual satisfaction is not your game, let Paul Kurtz—editor of The Humanist, professor of philosophy at SUNY, and a happily married man—explain how you too can achieve a meaningful existence in Exuberance: A Philosophy of Happiness (Prometheus Books, $8.95). . . . And for those long, lazy days beside the sluggish Housatonic, you will want to have Harold Blaisdell’s The Art of Fishing With Worms and Other Live Bait (Knopf, $10), both for practical advice and for pleasurable diversion when the fish just aren’t biting.