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...round of alternate back-patting and oneupmanship. Susann gushed to Vonnegut, who replaced her at the top of the lists: "I'm your No. 1 fan. People expect us to be enemies. We're not." Lehmann-Haupt reminded the authors that the Bible and the Boy Scout manual are still the alltime big sellers, but Comfort retaliated with: "The Joy of Sex is quite possibly the most frequently stolen book in all of history." Vonnegut said he knew why: "I think it has a beautiful plot...
...generation of Arabs has by now grown up in a society in which old class lines have gradually been eroded. At the time of the partitioning of Palestine, a gentleman in Egypt avoided manual labor to the point of rarely carrying his own briefcase. Students in the Arab oil cities would never work lest they disgrace their families (by suggesting that the family was in need of money) but would take jobs as dishwashers or bellhops while studying in Europe or the U.S. Many of these young intellectuals-the emerging elite of the Arab world-returned home imbued...
...protected by blast walls nearly six inches thick. Strewn about were hundreds of empty cans of Danish beef and Lebanese cheese. A camouflaged truck, looking quite new, sat abandoned outside one of the bunkers. Our escort officer, a major in intelligence, searched the truck and came out with a manual printed in Russian...
Author Richard Bach may be surprised to learn that his inspirational flight manual, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, has run into flak from a Red Guard group in Fukien province. Noting the popularity of the "tasteless and absurd" book in Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan, the group, via "Fukien Front" radio, has attacked what it calls "the Chiang gang's insidious motive in advocating the seagull character." The motive: to persuade intellectuals to oppose Communism. "Prominent personages in the Chiang gang," noted the young Red Guards, "have even openly called on the people to act like this particular seagull, pursue...
Then larger bombs appeared. A plastic sack containing three pounds of plaster gelatin was discovered in a major subway station after an Irish-accented caller alerted the press. A bomb concealed in a railway hobbyist's manual blew up in the face of Joanna Knight, a 25-year-old Stock Exchange secretary, as she was opening the morning mail. She suffered hand, face and arm injuries. Her boss, 61-year-old Exchange General Secretary George Brind, was also injured. Hours later a book bomb exploded in the mail room of the Bank of England, blowing...