Word: paperbacked
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...Mormon who says he feels "emotionally close to George Romney but philosophically closer to Barry Goldwater," Clawson for several years has mailed paperback copies of Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative as Christmas cards. In his first term as mayor of Compton, he eliminated bonded indebtedness and reduced city tax rates by one-third, was promptly re-elected in 1961. In his campaign, Conservative Clawson ignored his opponents, trained his fire on the Kennedy Administration. Stumping district shopping centers, assembly lines, weddings, wakes and picnics, he urged the elimination of farm price supports, recognition of a Cuban government...
This splendid sequel to The Splendid Century, British Historian W. H. Lewis's remarkable study of the Sun King at the high noon of his power, has just been brought out in paperback. In it Lewis skillfully uses the checkered life of the Due du Maine, Louis' most maligned illegitimate son, to chronicle the crumbling of French grandeur and the approach of le déluge...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass. In an autobiography he published in 1845 (reissued now in paperback), the greatest American Negro of the last century recalls his life as a slave...
...Bible and the Christian creeds; but since the story makes no sense to many literal, science-minded men. the Right Rev. John A. T. Robinson. 43, Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, accommodatingly explains in a new book that the doctrine is mostly dubious. Published last month in a five-shilling paperback gaily titled Honest to God, Bishop Robinson's revision of Anglican teaching has become a runaway English bestseller and has stirred up the Church of England's loudest row in years...
Inevitably, there was a final group of girls that did nothing at all. These students relate a quite different picture of Interim life. "The whole thing is a farce," said one. "The girls here just play bridge a lot, talk a lot, read a paperback or love comic. Ski on weekends. For most of us, it's three weeks of boredom...