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BAUDELAIRE: PRINCE OF CLOUDS by ALEX DE JONGE 240 pages. Paddington Press...
...address of an apartment house in Sydney's swinging Paddington district, and the story, which runs five nights a week, tells what goes on inside. It is mostly sex-in various forms and combinations. The daughter of the delicatessen owner on the ground floor gets gang-raped, hooked on drugs and pregnant, more or less in that order. A woman about to have a baby discovers her schoolteacher husband in bed with another woman and, impulsively running away, falls down a flight of stairs and suffers a miscarriage. The druggist downstairs is seen kissing his mistress, who everybody thinks...
Other signs of revolt soon cropped up. Teen-age gangs hit the streets, dressed in sleazy imitations of Edwardian frock coats. The Teddy boys mixed it up in angry race riots with West Indians, who were crowded into rundown districts like Paddington and Netting Hill Gate. Next, boys and girls divided up into foppishly dressed Mods and leather-jacketed Rockers, took to Brighton and Margate on holiday weekends to have a bit of a rumble while their elders rocked with still greater shock over the seamy revelations of the Profumo affair. Suddenly, with Profumo, the veneer of the upper classes...
...when only 200,000 nonwhites were in the country, white ire, helped by a slight rise in unemployment, sparked race riots in Nottingham and London's Netting Hill and Paddington districts. Since then, there have been no major outbreaks, but the underlying resentment remains strong, and both political parties have been understandably wary of antagonizing the white 98% of the electorate. Labor violently opposed the Tories' 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, but reversed itself and last winter decided to extend the law. The Tories were only too glad to oppose last week's bill on the ground that...
...seven white tenants moved out within three months and were replaced by swarms of West Indians paying vastly inflated rents. Eighteen months later, Rachman sold the house for five times what he had paid for it, and moved on to further real estate triumphs in the rundown areas of Paddington, Bayswater and Netting Hill...