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...order." Selected by six leading legal lights, such as Justice Roger J. Traynor of the California Supreme Court, the first recipient is Duke University's shy, witty, brilliant Law Professor Brainerd Currie, 52, author of 1963's Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws, a seminal, formidable tome that Currie characteristically dedicated "To My Wife, who has suffered more from these essays than any mere reader...
...find ammunition in the arguments of two like-minded Americans. One is Baltimore-born Thomas G. Buchanan, 44, a onetime reporter fired by the Washington Star in 1948 after he admitted membership in the Communist Party. He now lives in Paris and is the author of a widely discussed tome, Who Killed Kennedy? Buchanan suggests 1) "that the author of this crime is a millionaire of Texas, called Mr. X"; 2) that Oswald was an accomplice; but 3) that the shooting was done not by Oswald but by two triggermen, one from the Texas School Book Depository building...
...Vatican's embarrassment if the sculpture broke. In Spain, squabbling continued over the proposed loan to the fair of El Greco's 15-ft. by 24-ft. The Burial of Count Orgaz, while workmen waited to peel it from a wall in Toledo's Santo Tome Church...
...from Stockholm's "cultural radicals"-the powerful Establishment of secular-minded writers, editors and pedagogues who have been instrumental in, making Sweden a sociological laboratory. "The letter wants to introduce blind authoritarianism!" roared one newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. Authoress Kristina Ahlmark Michanek, 25, a free-love advocate whose latest tome, For Friendship's Sake, is a Swedish bestseller, declared indignantly: "It is a human right to go to bed with someone you like without being insulted by society." After all, she and others pointed out, prostitution is fast dying out in their country. They accused the doctors of having...
...formerly peddled jellied eels from an East End pushcart. The first time a bunch of budget Baedekers swarmed into his place, Sam "couldn't understand where all the Americans came from." Today, however, Sam is well aware that nearly all of his Stateside customers brandish a $1.95 paperback tome titled Europe...