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...CONSPIRACY OF WOMEN by Aubrey Menen. 244 pages. Random House...
...closest thing to a united nation that can be found in black Africa. More important, the four African ethnic groups -Bantu, Nilotic, Nilot-Hamitic and the Hamites-are in greater harmony now than ever before, much to the relief of whites and Asians who might otherwise feel their random wrath...
...mean task, since among the Frank Morrisseys in Boston, the Frank in question sometimes used Francis, with an X. or J. thrown in, apparently at random, as a middle initial...
...Recently we've been trying to force people back into a pre-game, pre-category stage by flooding their senses with random heat, light, and sound stimuli they can't categorize--by deliberately breaking up the expected," he says. This technique works best with groups of 12 people, and Leary has found a big market for ten-hour sessions at $40 a head. He and his associates have been busy every weekend recently running these sessions up and down the megalopolis. "After we get people slightly high we try to expand their consciousness to include the autonomic nervous system," Leary...
...postmistress, who figures briefly in his story. "Just like a flash of lightning, he was here, there, everywhere." The result of all Capote's footwork is a report, "In Cold Blood," now being serialized by The New Yorker. In January, it will be published in book form by Random House. Either way, it fulfills the novelist's ambition: it turns a routine police-beat job into a stunning study of the criminal mind...