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...week, visiting the Boston Public Library, being driven around in an enormous Cadillac and taping radio and television interviews in part of Bantam Books' unremitting effort to sell the 12 million copies in the new American edition's first printing. Now available in 15 languages, it is the largest, longest, best-selling, best-known, most comprehensive general-interest record book in the world. Ross attributes the dearth of imitations to potential competitors' lack of initiative. "Doing this book was hard work, and most publishers are lazy," he explains...
ACCORDING TO the the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest sentence in the world does not belong to Marcel Proust, but to Nicholas Murray Butler, former president of Columbia University. The sentence, 4284 words long, is in his annual president's report for 1942-43, President Bok's Annual President's Report for 1973-74 can make no such claims to a world record for verbosity or anything else, unless there's one for most yawns elicited from a single text. But Bok's report, a sort of State of the University address presented to the Board of Overseers...
...permission to have a child--and to be almost always refused One child is all a couple is allowed, and even that takes years of petitioning. Vasectomy bat mitzvahs every male. There is one unpaved area in the city: the Green, a glass walled lawn with trees The longest lines in the city form every day to look in at it. Living quarters are huge sleeping halls marked off with paint into individual spaces eight feet by twelve feet is the maximum allowable by law for single persons...
From that incident has grown one of the longest civil rights boycotts in Mississippi history. Organized by the United League of Marshall County, a local civil rights group that claims to have 4,000 members, the boycott has been nearly 100% effective for eight months. It has cut business in some Byhalia stores by as much as 75%. Six white merchants have already declared bankruptcy, and others may soon follow...
...announcement first in the Senate Caucus Room in Washington, then on the same day flew down for an instant replay for the home folks at Houston's Rice Hotel. Bentsen, 54, became the fifth Democrat on a list that could contain more than ten names before the longest presidential campaign in American history ends 20 months from now.* Flanked by his parents, Wife Beryl Ann, 53, and three children-Lloyd III, 30, Lan, 27, and Tina, 23-Bentsen told some 1,800 cheering supporters that he would bring his 26 years of political and business experience to the restoration...