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Booksellers are grinding their teeth over several big Ross Perot books that have been canceled on the eve of publication. But something bigger may be coming soon. PUTNAM is preparing to ship more than 100,000 copies of a supersecret book in late August. The publisher is keeping both the subject and author completely confidential. According to buyers for the major chains, Putnam executives have been whispering that it is a biography of a major Washington official that contains information so explosive it could cause his or her resignation. This has prompted a guessing game within the industry, but Putnam...
...Goldenberg, soon to be Sam Gordon, paterfamilias, returns from World War II to his wife Eve and his two-year-old daughter Susan. He is a skilled electrician, a confirmed workaholic, and he provides his growing family with a new house on Long Island, N.Y., a Cadillac, a boat -- everything but a fatherly presence. When he is not puttering with a new speedboat, he is climbing through the ranks at the local Masonic temple. Eve, a former singer at Catskill resorts, raises her three daughters and son on the Don't-let-Daddy-know principle. The children say there were...
Equally funny, and more irreverent, is novelist Eve Babitz' "Bodies and Souls," which defends and explores the Southern Californian cult of the body. "It has always seemed to me that sex (i.e. inspiring lust) was what L.A. was about," she writes. Babitz' memoir details her own quest to be "totally devastating when it came to pulchritude, blond-haired and smoldering...
...defense community had been debating the wisdom of allowing the company, 60% owned by the French government, to buy Dallas-based LTV Corp.'s missile business. The issue was resolved by the Treasury Department's interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which responded on the eve of the Fourth of July with a resounding "Non!" The panel voted to recommend to President Bush this week a rejection of Thomson-CSF's $300 million offer, based on widespread concern that the sale would compromise LTV's considerable top-secret high technology and threaten national security interests. The action...
...public also learned once more what Bush meant when he said he would "do what he had to do" to win re-election. Perot released the handwritten Christmas Eve note from Bush a day later and said he had intervened only "as one father to another." Perot then charged, "There has been a 90-day effort to redefine my personality by a group called Opposition Research of the Republican Party . . .They're generally known as the dirty-tricks crowd . . . This was a carefully thought-out and carefully executed effort to try to damage my candidacy." And that, said Perot...