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Yasuo Shikata, 36, leader of the Wash Pinocchio group, feels that the cleaning up has not gone far enough. He notes that at least one uneuphemized edition of Pinocchio, printed in 1967, is still on sale. He complains that illustrations of the cat wearing opaque eyeglasses and the fox struggling along on a crutch "give the impression of the abjectness of disability and stress discrimination against disabled unfortunates." The group's campaign has drawn a public apology for "thoughtlessness" from the major Japanese publisher of the children's classic, along with promises to withdraw at least four editions...
Japanese honor may be partially satisfied, but some Italians see the affair as an assault on their traditional humanism. Writing in Milan's Corriere della Sera, Essayist Luigi Compagnone jestingly defended the Cat and the Fox as "two small-time cheats, emeritus champions of the art of getting by," a talent that he says is attributed to the people of southern Italy. Japan, he added, is "a superindustrialized country, where the myths of superproduction have inserted themselves in the daily reality to the point of spasm. It does not know or accept anything but the frightening morality of integral efficiency...
...still operating it at full power, the Russians have cut back the Kiev buzz saw's schedule from hours at a time to scattered one-and two-minute bursts. To stem criticism, they are also dodging vital safety service and amateur frequencies. "It's become a cat-and-mouse game," says Douglas Spalt, an FCC treaty branch official. Meanwhile, Western states can do little else about the big noisemaker except ask for cooperation...
...made up her mind not to be an actress like Mommy or a film director like Daddy. She wanted to be a circus ringmaster. Now, at age 24, the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini is still hung up on rings-only these house a different breed of cat. As a reporter for Italian television, Isabella has just finished interviewing 40 U.S. boxers -including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis-for an upcoming six-hour special on the history of the sport. "I used to think boxers were all big muscle but no brain...
...Trinity, Uris (1 last week) 2-Sleeping Murder, Christie (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 4-Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (6) 5-Slapstick, Vonnegut (5) 6-The Crash of '79, Erdman (7) 7-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (4) 8-Dolores, Susann (8) 9-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (9) 10-The Users, Haber...