Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead of night, plugging sewage outlets of illegal polluters. But unlike the Eco-Commandos and the Fox, contestants had not necessarily acted out their ideas; all they were asked to suggest were projects that caused no serious harm. In fact, of all the entries, published this week in a paperback book, by far the most violent comes from a fourth-grade class in Wilmette, Ill.: "Kidnap the presidents of the big car companies and put them in a room and for 30 seconds turn their car pollution on them." It did not win a prize...
...Christ story, as well as by a number of human perplexities: Why, for example, did everything go so wrong for Jesus? Why didn't he choose to make his appearance on earth today, when he could have the benefit of mass communications to teach his followers? Armed with a paperback edition of Fulton J. Sheen's Life of Christ, which compares and calibrates the Gospel stories, Lloyd Webber and Rice burrowed and borrowed from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to create a libretto. The first three Gospels, says Rice, seem more dependable, since John "was much hotter on visions...
People who monopolize lanes for hours by swimming endless lengths side-stroke in the mistaken belief that they are exercising should use the small pool when the big pool is crowded. (They should also read a little paperback entitled Aerobics). Most swimmers get excellent exercise by swimming hard for 10 to 20 minutes, so that the turnover of swimmers may be more rapid...
Yesterday's action was organized by the Ayer, Mass. Common Sense Bookstore Collective and a group of G.I.'s from the base here. A total of 23 persons participated in the distribution of the paperback edition of the Pentagon's massive study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Leaflets containing excerpts from the study were also handed...
...author knows too that the most grueling suspense is generated not by mystery but by a long, slow wait for the inevitable. Partly for this reason, he seems about to make the kind of killing (Book-of-the-Month Club, record paperback advance, vast movie contract, etc.) that the Jackal hoped for from his far grimmer enterprise...