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...months before Dday, the U.S. Army decides to send a suicide squad behind enemy lines to blow up a Nazi officers' quarters. Leading the mission is a misfit major (Lee Marvin). His twelve "volunteers" are a random selection of criminals and psychopaths from the camp stockade including a Bible-quoting sex maniac (Telly Savalas), a Negro murderer (Jim Brown) and a small-time hood (John Cassavetes). Discipline to them is as foreign as freedom, and when Marvin tries to shape them up, they try to shake him down. In reply, he shovels on sarcasm and overtrains them until they...
...Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used to distribute books published by Bernard Geis, refused to handle it. Some say this happened because Cerf and Sinatra are friends. But Cerf has an even better reason. "This represents the sleaziest kind of publishing there is," he says: "Books that vilify a celebrity, living or dead...
ROSEMARY'S BABY by Ira Levin. 245 pages. Random House...
...military services. The means of determining who serves and who does not serve, within this eligible group, must be fair and non-discriminatory and must appear fair and non-discriminatory both to those who are selected and those who are not. We know of nothing but a random process--a "lottery"--that will meet their conditions...
Instead of random selection by lottery, the bill re-establishes the present system of drafting by date of birth within age groups. But the priority of the age groups will be reversed. The youngest -- 19-year olds -- will be the first to go, whereas the oldest are now taken first...