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Once you've gotten your textbooks, however, you'll find that the Coop also has an excellent paperback department on the second floor of the annex, and a hardback department with all the bestsellers- Love Story, Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Sex ( but were afraid to ask )- on the first floor. You get the same rebate deal if you join...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...Embassy Pictures Corp. for $4,500,000. And yet, and yet, at that palmy time ?was it only the day before yesterday? ?there was a reason offered for Mike's acidulous tongue and his lofty penthouse picture of society. It was the standard one, heavily merchandised by paperback Freudians: an unhappy childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some are More Yossarian than Others | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

Bang-Zone. Like Proxmire, ecologists are concerned about the potential threat of the SST to the environment. Many of their misgivings are documented in the S/S/T and Sonic Boom Handbook, a hot-selling (150,000 copies to date) paperback edited by William Shurcliff, director of a pressure group called the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. The Handbook contends that a single SST, flying from New York to California, would leave a "bang-zone" 50 miles wide by 2,000 miles long. But some tests indicate that this bang at SST's operational height of 60,000 ft. will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: SST: Boon or Boom-Doggie? | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...only book to appear on this subject is ???ckie paperback, The Killing of Sharon Tate. It is a calculated exploitational work of popular culture, complete with pseudo-sociology, gore, glamour and inexplicit sex. As escapist reading however, it isn't a hell...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Murder Satan in California | 5/20/1970 | See Source »

...publishers, American Heritage Publishing Co. and Houghton Mifflin Co., expect to move another 610,000 copies this year. Last week, capping one of the most successful book promotions in history, they sold the paperback rights to Dell Publishing Co. for $750,000, an exceptionally large soft-cover advance. The paperback edition will cost 75? and contain 55,000 words, compared with 155,000 in the hardcover dictionary, which sells for $7.95 in plain covers and $12.50 in deluxe binding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: The Selling of a Dictionary | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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