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...Lost Souls. But the bulk of Girodias' list consists of such works as Who Pushed Paula?, by "Akbar del Piombo," Houses of Joy, by "Wu Wu Meng," and Until She Screams, by "Faustino Perez." Girodias pays about $1,000 a book and chooses the pseudonyms himself-"Otherwise, they always pick something like J. Walter Thompson." He prints 5,000 copies of each standard pornographic novel in chaste green jackets labeled "The Traveler's Companion Series," and invariably sells out at 3.75 francs (75?) a copy. For bulk sales, he finds that the best markets are France...
...turned inside out, is the broad-minded man, who is not very helpful either. His definition of pornography is clear, but only to him: "Anything that shocks me too much." Olympia's output shocks almost everyone, at least momentarily. But in the view of New England-born Author Akbar, "The books have so much filth that they're not filthy. They're zany, like the Marx Brothers...
...Concubines. The palace gates opened. Shrieks rose to the sky as the coffin of King Mohammed V emerged, draped in a venerable black, green and gold cloth that, by tradition, had hung at the tomb of the Prophet in Mecca. Rhyth mically the crowd cried "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" (God is most great). Thus last week King Mohammed V. the found er of independent Morocco, was laid to rest in the royal mausoleum. Mohammed, though recently prone to hypochondria, was in good health and enjoyed life with his two wives and an estimated 28 concubines. Yet last week, swiftly...
...western shore of the Indian Ocean, Aga Khan IV was acclaimed in the first of many installation ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia. The sun blazed down, and after some 20,000 faithful chanted "Allah Akbar," the young Aga received a signet ring, a robe of many colors, a golden turban, the 49-disked gold chain of Omnipotent Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation, the Aga's initial assumption of temporal and spiritual leadership over some 20 million widely scattered Ismailis...
...that the important thing is to "gain time, without armed conflict, so as to allow passions to subside." To facilitate this he proposed that the United Nations military force should occupy "not only the Gaza Strip but a corridor of territory running from Gaza to the Gulf of Akbar...