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Just Out: The Mask of State is a collection of Watergate portraits by Mary McCarthy (Harcourt, $7.95.The London Times Insight Team reviews The Yom Kippur War (Doubleday, $8.95 Philip Roth threatens to out-Portnoy us with My Life as a Man (Holt, $8.95) Khrushchev Remembers is the last volume of his “memoirs” (Little, Brown, $12.50). John Le Carre back at the old stand with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Knopf, $7.95). Fat Can Be Beautiful, so Dr. Abraham I. Friedman figures you might as well relax and enjoy it (Putnam, $6.95).Charlotte (Mrs. Harrison) Salisbury issues her Russian Diary (Walker, $7.95).

Major new work by philosopher Paul Weiss: Beyond All Appearances (Illinois, $15.Alan Barth calls our Supreme Court dissenters Prophets without Honor (Knopf, $6.95). Kate Millett’s latest assault on civilization, Flying, explains how she juggles lesbianism and pseudomarriage, inveighs against Catholicism for giving her occasional twinges of guilt (Knopf, $8.95). Norberto Valentini and Clara Di Meglio sneaked into Italian confessionals, posed as penitents, taperecorded what went on, compounded their sacrilege into Sex and the Confessional, and became two of the very few to be excommunicated in today’s Catholic Church (Stein & Day, $6.95). A History of Judaism by Daniel J. Silver and Bernard Martin from Basic (2 vol., boxed, $30).

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Just Out: The Mask of State is a collection of Watergate portraits by Mary McCarthy (Harcourt, $7.95.The London Times Insight Team reviews The Yom Kippur War (Doubleday, $8.95 Philip Roth threatens to out-Portnoy us with My Life as a Man (Holt, $8.95) Khrushchev Remembers is the last volume of his “memoirs” (Little, Brown, $12.50). John Le Carre back at the old stand with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Knopf, $7.95). Fat Can Be Beautiful, so Dr. Abraham I. Friedman figures you might as well relax and enjoy it (Putnam, $6.95).Charlotte (Mrs. Harrison) Salisbury issues her Russian Diary (Walker, $7.95).

Major new work by philosopher Paul Weiss: Beyond All Appearances (Illinois, $15.Alan Barth calls our Supreme Court dissenters Prophets without Honor (Knopf, $6.95). Kate Millett’s latest assault on civilization, Flying, explains how she juggles lesbianism and pseudomarriage, inveighs against Catholicism for giving her occasional twinges of guilt (Knopf, $8.95). Norberto Valentini and Clara Di Meglio sneaked into Italian confessionals, posed as penitents, taperecorded what went on, compounded their sacrilege into Sex and the Confessional, and became two of the very few to be excommunicated in today’s Catholic Church (Stein & Day, $6.95). A History of Judaism by Daniel J. Silver and Bernard Martin from Basic (2 vol., boxed, $30).