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...most concerned is Maurice Girodias, a 42-year-old Parisian who runs Olympia Press, the world's most notorious publisher of English-language pornography. Girodias, an amiable, vague, unbusinesslike man, plays the role of a monster of depravity with vigor but no consistency, registering at different times belligerence, shy embarrassment, prosperous self-satisfaction, artiness, guilt, and a well-practiced sinister leer. Last week it was artiness; he would like nothing better than to be put out of business, he said-in fact Olympia's sole aim has been to batter down the bastions of censorship and make...
Detroit is not about to market such a monster. But General Motors President John F. Gordon grumbled last week that "amateur engineers" are trying to impose federal regulation of safety design that is just about as realistic...
Pope John's encyclical displays "dated rather than eternal wisdom," Niebuhr believes, in opposing birth control and ignoring the fast pace of population increase. But he refrains from laboring the point, "lest the professional anti-Catholics take too much courage. They regard the Roman church as a monster. It is really a very impressive survival from medievalism, which has managed to apply its ancient wisdom to the comfort of a harassed generation in a nuclear and technical...
That was clearly a mistake. At a recent press-conference debate with Luken, Hoffa seemed nervous and unsure in argument. And despite bales of advance TV and newspaper publicity, a monster rally of loyal Teamsters, with Hoffa as featured speaker, filled less than half the 3,800-capacity Cincinnati Music Hall. Last week, as the National Labor Relations Board began hearings on the new election that Luken wants, Hoffa and his handymen as much as admitted that the operation would take longer than expected: Gibbons set up a new regional office for the Cincinnati Teamsters-and took...
Minuteman. Or, U.S. scientists guessed, perhaps it was the "small" trigger device for the huge 100-megaton monster that Khrushchev boasted was being designed...