Books: Beach Balls

ON INSTRUCTIONS OF MY GOVERNMENT by Pierre Salinger. 408 pages. Doubleday. $6.95.

FAKING IT, or THE WRONG HUNGARIAN by Gerald Green. 411 pages. Trident. $7.95.

For summertime entertainment, the popular novel retains certain distinct advantages over even the most portable television set. The book is easy to operate and almost never needs repair. It functions at all altitudes and particularly well at sea level, where sand, salt air and suntan lotions have no adverse effects on its performance. These two suitable-for-summer novels are brisk, undemanding and unoffensive, except possibly to cautious Washington bureaucrats,...

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