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...This summer, its "No Vacations for the Rich" program featured sabotage attacks on Riviera resorts. Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre belongs to the 2,000-member group and edits its newspaper, but his efforts have gone unnoticed; the police have confiscated every issue since Sartre took up his pencil...
...Reedy, told an audience of Princeton University students last week. A U.S. President "tends to view attacks upon himself as attacks upon the country," said Reedy. "L.B.J. could pull out a mental file drawer in which he had catalogued every major sin by anyone who had ever held a pencil...
...California, Psychologist Ernest Bradford Smith has been analyzing the script of his charges for 15 years and says that he can now spot the delinquent by his handwriting. De Sainte Colombe is widely known among West Coast behavioral scientists, some of whom are impressed by his pen-and-pencil therapy. Tested at a number of institutions, among them California's Patton State Hospital and the Santa Clara Mental Health Center, his treatment has produced what Psychologist George Melzer calls "astonishing results." Says Dr. John Langdell, a psychiatrist at San Francisco's Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute...
...named Albertine Sarrazin. Hastily, he buys 13 school notebooks. In a few months, apparently with near total recall, he scribbles Part I (1931 to 1945) in longhand and mails it to Sarrazin's editors in Paris. Called Papillon (what else?) and barely touched by an editor's pencil, it sells 1,000,000 copies in France, setting a new French record. It is sold to the Book-of-the-Month Club in the U.S. (this November's selection) and, at an estimated $1,000,000, is contracted for the largest first printing in Pocket Books' history...
...would be returned to me, including my car, and concluded with a surprise. "There will be a gathering of the peasants, and we would like you to make a statement. We want you to tell us your impressions of your stay here." I nodded, and he gave me a pencil and paper. I thought for a few long moments and then began to write. In minutes, I had finished what I wanted to say. He took my copy and walked over to read it by the light of the window. His face creased into a frown. "Some of this...