Word: seven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dealers. The combination of AMC and Jeep is so natural that both companies have considered it for seven years; they finally agreed when the price was right. The two companies are partners in a new auto plant in Iran; they are also affiliated in Argentina, where AMC uses Jeep engines, and in Mexico, where Jeep buys its engines from American. American will take over Kaiser's auto plants in 34 countries, acquire a new line for its 2,400 dealers at home, and likely gain much-needed recruits among Jeep's 1,600 dealers, some of whom will...
...rule, the effect of Irving Wallace's books is indirectly proportional to his reader's lack of information and sophistication. The Seven Minutes, a turgid, untitillating novel about an obscenity trial, is no exception. It is a book for people who don't know much about pornography but who know what they like...
...SEVEN MINUTES by Irving Wallace. 607 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...basic situation pits a politically ambitious but honest California district attorney against an idealistic, pipe-smoking lawyer who is defending a bookseller accused of selling obscene matter. The matter in question is The Seven Minutes, a novel that records the thoughts of a woman while she is enjoying intercourse. "Filth!" cry the D.A., the church and civilian smut-busters. "Art," intones the defense and assorted experts. "Shame," says the reader who recognizes that Wallace fails to show an awareness of the 1966 Supreme Court ruling on Fanny Hill. The decision stated that a book offending community standards could be proscribed...
...same I decided to call the Ticket Office. The gentleman to whom I spoke was not only sympathetic but also unusually informative. I learned there are six such blind spots in each of the thirty-seven sections. as well as an undetermined number of seats in the lower bleachers of section 31 on the Harvard side and of the corresponding section on the opponent's side which are wholly or largely blocked by the Team's presence...