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...could only occasionally go outside to breathe. When the Cambodians permitted us a visit to the main temple, the bus driver was so uneasy about the possibilities of an ambush that he tended to careen erratically among the temple clusters. One driver was so anxious to cross the Angkor Thorn moat leading to one of the temple complexes that he banged his bus against the bridge railing...
November's "Campus Paperback Bestsellers," compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education from information supplied by college stores throughout the country, lists "The Thorn Birds," the story of an Australian family by Colleen McCullough, "My Mother, Myself," and "The Women's Room" as top sellers...
...genuine horror story, calculated to make the most alarming of Rhodesian doomsday prophecies seem true. As a blood-red sun was sinking behind the thorn trees on the Zambezi escarpment, a lumbering Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner took off from Kariba on a flight to Salisbury. Ten minutes later the pilot, John Hood, 36, reported that he had lost control of his starboard engines. "We're going in," he radioed. In a few moments, his craft crashed into the thick bushland of the Whamira Hills...
...most expensive paperback auction in publishing history: $2.2 million for the rights to reprint Mario Puzo's new novel, Fools Die, plus $350,000 to reprint his alltime bestselling saga, The Godfather. The previous record price, $1.9 million, was paid for Colleen McCullough's Australian sheep opera, The Thorn Birds, now playing beach blankets and jammed airline lounges throughout the free-time world...
...Days fetched $1,550,000. Other notable $1 million-plus books include Erich Segal's Oliver's Story ($1,410,000), E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime ($1,850,000), Dorothy Uhnak's The Investigation ($1,595,000), William Safire's Full Disclosure ($1,375,000) and McCullough's phenomenal The Thorn Birds, which nearly broke the $2 million barrier...