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DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis Ferdinand Céline. The founding father of black humor in a new, splendidly gutty translation of his classic about the bitter, unbreakable orphan whose childhood and nonage were a lugubrious epic of squalor, filth, misery and hatred...
...small U.S. colleges, the endowment of universities in more than 50 new nations. New York's Mayor John Lindsay pleaded for more money for U.S. cities by saying: "I would not want the U.S. to be described by future generations as a society that stood amidst the filth, the oppression and the violence of its slums and shot rockets to the moon." Even Vice President Humphrey, himself a strong promoter of the Apollo program, has worried lest "we go down in history as a people who could send a man to the moon and five Coke vending machines along...
...brutal treatment of CO's in training camps: "Men were forcibly clad in uniform, beaten, pricked or stabbed with bayonets, jerked about with ropes around their necks, threatened with summary execution, tortured by various forms of the 'water cure.' In at least two cases men were immersed in the filth of latrines, one of them head downward...
...said, her firm had sold 11,247 copies and netted only $3,315.20. Appearing for the prosecution, Dr. Ernest Caxton, an authority on homosexuality, called the book an "extremely dangerous" guide to homosexual experimentation. Book Publisher (Pergamon Press) Robert Maxwell, a Labor M.P., blasted it as "sociological material with filth and muck just added for profit...
...repairs in the public toilets." Old Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with filth, these sanitation workers had the loftiest and purest souls...