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...part of the introduction to a soon-to-be-published paperback series based on year-to-year excerpts from TIME...
Give it away he does not. The New York smoothies realize what a picturesque thing it is, arrange for a tie-in selling campaign with novelist Robin Moore (Sadler poses for the paperback cover for The Green Berets), tell him to write enough songs to fill up an album, and get the show on the road. In months, Sadler is the American Legion's "Favorite Serviceman 1966," the owner of two Jaguars--one black and one blue--and the name-sake of the Barry Sadler Foundation for college scholarships to Vietnam victims' children...
...intricate are Japan's election laws that a candidate for the Diet must wade through a 200-page paperback manual of dos and don'ts before he dares to make a speech. If he campaigns by car, he is limited to a "short, simple appeal" such as "Please vote for me." If he campaigns by sea or river, he is restricted to one boat. He may make only 60 speeches during the three-week campaign, no more than three of them on the radio. At his campaign headquarters he may serve nothing stronger than "tea and light cookies...
...insiders estimate that hard-cover sales will earn some $2,000,000 for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, and Author Manchester, who has often said that he did not expect to make much from the work, will get rewards from magazine, Book-of-the-Month Club, foreign and paperback rights that will add up to a tidy fortune of more than...
...surfers leafed lightly over the waves, and girls in Bermuda-length "cutoffs" or gaudy minishifts strolled languidly down the strand. Mostly, they read: Hans Reichenbach's The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, giant Batman comics, In Cold Blood, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and a strategic paperback titled How to Get Ahead in the Army. For those who could not make the sun scene, there was a new crop of movies to catch, coffeehouses for conversation, or further out, a burgeoning of psychediscotheques tripping with lobster lights and the whining anti-melodies of Indian sitar music...