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...back, as board chairman. The new publisher is a self-styled "Constitutionalist" named Ben Reddick, a public relations man who ran the triweekly Newport Beach News-Press so haphazardly that the Audit Bureau of Circulation was moved to comment in 1961: "The condition of the circulation records made an ac curate audit for the previous 24 months impossible...
...growing wave of nationalization of French-owned property, the government of Charles de Gaulle last week demanded a new round of diplomatic talks with Algeria. France's complaint: Premier Ahmed ben Bella's headlong plunge into socialism is in serious violation of the 1962 Evian ac cords, which granted Algeria independence. At a National Assembly budget hearing, Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing hinted that French aid to Algeria might be slashed by amounts equal to "compensation that would be due French citizens for nationalizations or spoliations...
...Steel plans to streamline by combining seven divisions covering mining, shipping and steelmaking into a single unit in hopes that the elephant will be able to move more quickly. It will consolidate its research and ac counting operations and narrow its 53 separate sales offices in 28 cities (as many as three to a city) to only one to a city. Seven other autonomous divisions, largely concerned with steel fabricating, were left untouched...
...Chicago code has worked well restraining headline-happy editors. Trouble is, the editors have been going it one better. In the most recent racial flare-ups (TIME, Aug. 9), only the most persistent newspaper reader in Chicago could find the brief, terse ac counts almost invariably buried deep in his newspaper. During a week of nightly rumbles near the Negro ghetto of Chicago's South Side, 178 arrests were made, and seven policemen were injured. But after the second night of brawling, the morning Sun-Times merely tucked a few paragraphs at the bottom of its obituary page...
...Olympia Press's professional pornographers are driven to exploit De Sadean whips, chains and intricate multiple interlacings to keep ahead of the uncensored press), Fanny Hill's straightforward heterosexuality must come as a shock. None of her escapades, for instance, are as unsavory as the AC-DC boy-meets-boy encounters of James Baldwin's Another Country, nor are they as grubbily explicit as the climactic sexual passage in Updike's Rabbit...