Briefly Noted

Harold M. Kaplan '30, a professor at Southern Illinois University, is co-author (with Christian W. Zauner and Wendell N. Stainsby) of Laboratory. Experiments in Exercise Physiology. This classroom manual is designed to enable students, or any experimenters, to observe the adaptive mechanisms in operation during exercise and to better comprehend how the human body integrates functions in order to produce optimal physical performance. It is published by PrenticeHall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J.

Car Insurance and Consumer Desires is co-authored by Jeffrey O'Connell 51 and Wallace H. Wilson. O'Connell, Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, and Wilson conducted a survey among two thousand families in Illinois to test their satisfaction with the present method of paying automobile accident claims and to elicit their preferences for other forms of payment. The authors hope that their findings will help "point the way toward an intelligent weighing of consumer attitudes in hammering, out eventual reform." University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Ill. 115 pp. $6.50.

David M. Muchnick '66, a Fulbright-Hays scholar at the University of Essex in 196-67, has expanded his master's thesis into a small book, Urban Renewal in Liverpool. Sub-titled "A Study of Politics of Redevelopment," it is an investigation of the urban renewal program in Liverpool and the political process from which it emerged in 1962 and 1967. Specifically, the analysis covers the political and organizational environment that hampered the implementation of a comprehensive residential renewal policy in that city. It is published by G. Bell & Sons, London, as one the Occasional Papers on Social Administration No. 33. 120 pp. Price 35/ - .

The Best and the Last of Edwin O'Connor, edited by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., contains a contribution by John V. Kelleher '39, who is Professor of Modern Irish History and Literature at Harvard. The book js made up of selections from all phases of O'Connor's writing, and Professor Kelleher has written the introduction to the religious fragment, "The Cardinal." Published in Boston by Atlantic-Little, Brown Books. 465 pp. $10.