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...Publishers who printed the books tried to counter falling sales by price reductions, but even this was not successful." One of those publishers is Stig Vendelkjaer, whose titles include I, a Woman. "I have 500,000 unsold books in stock," he complains. "Heaven knows how I shall ever get rid of them." Hardest hit of all, perhaps, are the obsequious little men who run Denmark's fleshier kiosks and porno stores-and who are now trying to unload for $8.50 a reel skin flicks that last year sold for $40. "The legalization is killing business," says...
...last month, the scene was characteristically somnolent, with at least five peers asleep on their scarlet benches and a couple of others halfheartedly straining to hear the proceedings with old-fashioned black ear trumpets. But when the Lord Chancellor, Lord Gardiner, described the proposal as "a start towards getting rid of a lot of junk," his words rang like alarm bells. Leaping to his feet, Lord Leatherland cried: "I should hate historians of the future to say that Lord Gardiner was the man who said that Magna Carta was junk." The Lord Chancellor was appropriately chastened. Rising from his comfortable...
...medical profession has had two years, from May, 1967, to May, 1969, to clean house: to take up generic prescribing and rid itself of unhealthy financial ties to the drug industry but has failed to act. On the contrary, medical spokesmen even here in Massachusetts which has a larger share of enlightened doctors than any other state, have gone before the legislature and argued against the progressive and highly desirable Serlin Bill which would require doctors to write at least the generic name for a drug product on every prescription...
...Ohio, Gilligan already had come to personify the New Politics by defeating right-wing, incumbent Senator Frank Lausche in the party primary that May. It was a shrewdly run intraparty coup, and it rid the party of an embarrassing conservative...
...major television networks coolly tuned out Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare in 1966. But the medical fellow they really wanted to get rid of-and could not -is a real-life Dr. Killjoy by the name of Donald Frederickson. Dr. Frederickson is a 34-year-old public-health official who began campaigning two years ago to change the TV image of cigarettes. Among his proposals: "admired characters" like Johnny Carson should stop smoking on camera, and TV series heroes should decline cigarettes offered them during climactic scenes. That, said Frederickson, might help dissuade the 4,000 young Americans who begin...