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■ More March Titles: Robert Penn Warren publishes a new novel called A Place to Come To (Random House, $10). . . . The subject of The Master of Sunny-bank: A Biography of Albert Payson Terhune (Harper, $10.95), by Irving Litvag, was a famous writer of dog stories who made a persuasive case for the notion that collies are a more noble breed than homo saps. . . . Harry Rositzke’s The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counter-Espionage, and Covert Action (Reader’s Digest Press, $12.95) is a sympathetic treatment of the agency by a man who was its agent for 25 years, during which time he was engaged in numerous anti-Soviet assignments. . . . Lawrence A. Cremin traces various aspects in the history of our native pedagogy in Traditions oj American Education (Basic, $8.95). . . . Nat Hentoff’s new opus is Does Anybody Give a Damn? (Knopf, $8.95). He encourages you to address those damns to the New York City school system. . . . Falconer (Knopf, $7.95), by John Cheever, is a novel about an upper-middle-class man who is sent to prison and wins his salvation. . . . In Injustice for All: How Our Adversary System of Law Victimizes Us and Subverts True Justice (Putnam, $8.95), Anne Strick traces the evolution and malevolent effect of what she calls “the adversary ethic” that has produced our “win system” of law and perverted our high judicial intentions. “A must for everyone who must live by laws—and that means you!”—Abigail (Dear Abby) Van Buren. . . . C. A. Doxiadis has written a book called Building Entopia (Norton, $14.95): “Gradually, people living in the proper city will become more humane, they will have higher quality, and more choices, and this will help them to fight for freedom, honesty, and everything else that developed and civilized people need. Anatomy is indeed destiny. Let us ameliorate the anatomy of our city and our destiny will be a much better one.” Perhaps it will even include people who can think—and write. . . . Patrick Moore’s New Guide to the Moon (Norton, $10.95) offers moonies answers to everything they ever thought of asking.

■ Ladies’ Department: In researching Pink Collar Workers: Inside the World of Women’s Work (Putnam, $8.95), Louise Kapp Howe—who is concerned over the fact that most women in the labor force continue to work at the inferior jobs to which they have historically been relegated—took a job as a sales clerk in a department store, an experience that turned out to be “one of the richest.” But she shied away from the “difficult and confusing job” of waitressing on the grounds that she was not up to its challenges. So she took up one of the most grubby and unpleasant occupations known to Man. She wrote a book.

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■ More March Titles: Robert Penn Warren publishes a new novel called A Place to Come To (Random House, $10). . . . The subject of The Master of Sunny-bank: A Biography of Albert Payson Terhune (Harper, $10.95), by Irving Litvag, was a famous writer of dog stories who made a persuasive case for the notion that collies are a more noble breed than homo saps. . . . Harry Rositzke’s The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counter-Espionage, and Covert Action (Reader’s Digest Press, $12.95) is a sympathetic treatment of the agency by a man who was its agent for 25 years, during which time he was engaged in numerous anti-Soviet assignments. . . . Lawrence A. Cremin traces various aspects in the history of our native pedagogy in Traditions oj American Education (Basic, $8.95). . . . Nat Hentoff’s new opus is Does Anybody Give a Damn? (Knopf, $8.95). He encourages you to address those damns to the New York City school system. . . . Falconer (Knopf, $7.95), by John Cheever, is a novel about an upper-middle-class man who is sent to prison and wins his salvation. . . . In Injustice for All: How Our Adversary System of Law Victimizes Us and Subverts True Justice (Putnam, $8.95), Anne Strick traces the evolution and malevolent effect of what she calls “the adversary ethic” that has produced our “win system” of law and perverted our high judicial intentions. “A must for everyone who must live by laws—and that means you!”—Abigail (Dear Abby) Van Buren. . . . C. A. Doxiadis has written a book called Building Entopia (Norton, $14.95): “Gradually, people living in the proper city will become more humane, they will have higher quality, and more choices, and this will help them to fight for freedom, honesty, and everything else that developed and civilized people need. Anatomy is indeed destiny. Let us ameliorate the anatomy of our city and our destiny will be a much better one.” Perhaps it will even include people who can think—and write. . . . Patrick Moore’s New Guide to the Moon (Norton, $10.95) offers moonies answers to everything they ever thought of asking.

■ Ladies’ Department: In researching Pink Collar Workers: Inside the World of Women’s Work (Putnam, $8.95), Louise Kapp Howe—who is concerned over the fact that most women in the labor force continue to work at the inferior jobs to which they have historically been relegated—took a job as a sales clerk in a department store, an experience that turned out to be “one of the richest.” But she shied away from the “difficult and confusing job” of waitressing on the grounds that she was not up to its challenges. So she took up one of the most grubby and unpleasant occupations known to Man. She wrote a book.