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...Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (6) 4. The Ordeal of Power, Hughes (3) 5. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (4) 6. Forever Free, Adamson ( 10) 7. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (7) 8. The Feminine Mystique, Friedan 9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis 10. This Kind of War, Fehrenbach...
...Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (1) 3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (3) 4. The Ordeal of Power, Hughes (5) 5. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (9) 6. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (4) 7. Final Verdict, St. Johns (6) 8. Forever Free, Adamson 9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis 10. My Life in Court, Nizer...
...Actress Yvette Mimieux, currently picking up a cool $60,000 a year as Hollywood's newest bit of fancy, the stuff seems genuine enough. So is her new-found stardom. At 21, with only eight films to her credit, Miss Mimieux (pronounced Mee-mee-yer) captured the plum part of the rich, put-upon child-bride in the screen version of Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic, for which she receives top billing, right along with Geraldine Page and Dean Martin. Considering the fact that just three years ago she was playing Weena, the forward-thinking girl...
...named Benjamin Franklin. Not a very good postman was Ben, said Day, with more humor than accuracy. Day, in effect, accused Franklin of nepotism (six relatives on the payroll), unfair business practices (plotting to bar the mails to a rival publisher), and, as a final shaft, "after landing this plum he left for England and stayed 18 years." Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club was not amused. "Franklin may have had some human failings," said a spokesman, ''but at least he was able to run the Post Office with out a deficit...
...consumption in five years, making it Japan's third favorite sweet, after chocolates and caramels. No fewer than 43 manufacturers are turning out gamu, as it is called, and they have already popularized 150 flavors, including such tangy new taste sensations as green tea, gin fizz and pickled plum. In the interests of more mannerly mastication, the manufacturers have even prescribed a code of gummanship (cardinal rule: never chew when addressing your elders), plan to install 1,000 wad-disposal boxes in convenient public places, and have introduced an official gum chewers' anthem...