April 16, 1972

This is a most unusual, frankly iconoclastic book—not literary crit icism, not sociology, not a personal memoir, but a long meditation upon these matters by a man who is, or was, deeply involved with the self‐ destructive elements in himself and in our society, and who concludes this book with an extremely frank and rather embarrassing account of his own “failed suicide” at Christ mastime, 1960.

CINCINNATI, April 15—Don Sutton and Jim Brewer held Cincinnati to three hits today as the Los Angeles Dodgers opened the late‐starting Na tional League baseball season with a 3‐1 victory over the Reds.

article on GM Assembly Div, which runs 18 assembly plants employing 91,000 workers; div's policies have brought labor unrest to almost every plant it has taken over; recent struggle with young workers at Lordstown, Ohio, plant led to 22-day strike, and another strike is under way at Norwood, Ohio, plant; div, which is responsible for about 75% of GM's production, uses computerized system to rank each plant according to efficiency; continuing pressure is put on plant mgt to cut costs; GM Assembly Div gen mgr J E Godfrey and UAW GM dept head I Bluestone comment; Godfrey and Bluestone illus

BALTIMORE, April 15 —Un able to ascribe further delay to the machinations of Marvin Mil ler or the intransigence of club owners, the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles found themselves prevented from starting the baseball season to day by an older obstacle, one an earlier generation liked to refer to as Jupiter Pluvius.

Dean of Stony Brook College of Engineering Prof T F Irvine Jr attributes unusually nigh enrollment of foreign students at College of Engineering to strikingly generous amounts of available aid and poor job outlook for engineers in US, further discouraging Amer students, who are already distressed by physical science's assn with mil-indus complex; Stony Brook repts that of 962 applications received in '71 for study in advanced engineering, 700 came from foreign students, many of whom received assistance from research fellowships financed by Natl Science Foundation; illus of Taiwanese and Indian doctoral candidates