This book contains a collection of original research papers which were presented in honor of the Bordon Award recipient, Professor Eric Baer, on the occasion of the 55th Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Atlanta, Georgia, March, 1981). The contributors are present or former colleagues and students who have worked with him in the Department of Macromolecular Science at Case Institute of Technology of Case Western Reserve University. Throughout his work, Eric Baer has attempted to find the relation ships of solid state structure and hierarchy to the resultant pro perties from which...

Thomas Tucker Rollinger, aka Rolly, is the third generation heir to a jam fortune who wants to live modestly in an old colonial house in Connecticut growing exotic plants in his greenhouse. But his splendid quiet is interrupted when a nouveau riche neighbor begs him to find out who stole her precious Chinese antiques from the library during a recent dinner party. He resists on the grounds that he has pressing business affairs to attend to until unforeseen circumstances draw him into a web of deceit he's forced to unravel. And when the going gets tough, he turns to the one person whose astute...