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Seven of Britain's 20 major newspapers have violated the ban. In the U.S., where the book was published by Viking Penguin last month, Spycatcher is in its fifth printing; it has already sold 210,000 copies, and next week will rank first on the New York Times best-sellers list. Thousands of copies have crossed the Atlantic: two entrepreneurs were spotted hawking copies of the book for $158 beneath a statue of Winston Churchill, across from Parliament. Last Sunday Labor M.P. Tony Benn read aloud from Spycatcher before a large crowd of journalists and onlookers at Hyde Park...
...bill also empowers President Reagan to exempt certain items from the ban, including products essential for defense. Kongsberg hopes such an exemption would allow it to fulfill a $96 million contract to sell Penguin air-to-ship missiles to the Navy. Without that sale, Kongsberg might be forced to file for bankruptcy...
...neighbor and his grandmother on workdays. Reporter-Researcher Lois Gilman, mother of Seth, 8, and Eve, 7, learned firsthand about the need for a guide that includes child-care resources. The result: The New York Parents' Book: Your Guide to Raising Children in the City, due soon from Penguin Books...
Eventually Georges and Plume Books, a division of the Penguin Publishing Company, decided on one another. "We liked the fact that it [the book] was going to be written by graduates of the schools," says Luann Walther, the company representative, "which made it different from reference tomes that only give the school's official view of itself...
Reading International (47 Brattle St.) also stays open late and offers a good place to waste a half-hour before or after a movie at the Brattle St. Theater. On a nice day, you can try the outdoor stand along Church St. for good bargains on recently published books. Penguin Book afficionados can find every U.S. published and many British published Penguins at the Penguin Bookshop (1100 Mass...