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| N) : ‘a: “<P See @re oF PAPERBACKS oon The 1968 edition of the Guin- ness Book of World Records (Bantam, $1) is out, and once again we are reassured that the year just past was not in vain. Donald Camobell set a new speed-on-water record of 328 m.p.b., Sir Francis Chichester set a new single stage on solo 7 ne 8 a 32 .F Va CIPCUIDNAVIPAWUM TeCOrU Ul 1t,- 750 miles in a 119-day voyage ‘and Dr. Barbara Moore set a “new greatest-distance-ever- walked-non-stop record of 168 ‘miles in 4) hours and 40 min- utes, There were new records ‘also in tightrope walking, roll- " ing-pin throwing, needle-thread- -ing and go-go dancing, but if ’ _ all this tumultuous upheaval and overthrow makes vou uneasy. then take comfort in the fact that the record for the longest period in which any volunteer Li. Lie -L1. 1S PCT BI to withstand total deprivation of all sensory stimu- lation still stands at 92 hours, as it has since 1962. Three hundred and fiity years ~ of Negro-American protest and agitation are documented in a new Premier book, Black Pro- test: 1619 to the Present (95¢), edited and with intre- duction and commentary by Joanne Grant. The book is neither threatening nor reassur- ing but it makes an impertant point: The Negroes have tried netitions, lawsuits, marches, sit- _ Conquest of Happiness vealing beyond ordinary limi- tations. In The Terrible Choice: The Abortion DHlemma (Ban- tam Extra, 95¢} the medical facets and the ethical isense are explored by doctors, psychia- trists, lawyers, clergymen, social scientists and others who par- International Conference on Abortion; with 16 pages of photographs of the development of the human embryo by Len- nart Nilsson. Bertrand Russell waited more than 50 years to tell the story of the first 42 years of his life in the Autobiography of Ber- trand Russell (Bantam, $1.25) and the result wae 2 stunning work of art, a sensual as well as an intellectual history of a man so gifted, so many-faceted and so alive that as a fictional char- acter he would be put down as unbelievable. Bantam is also reissuing Russell’s Marriage (1930) in 95¢ editions. The Eliminator by Andrew York (Lancer, 75¢) is one Jonas Wilde, a new entry from the James Bond cold killer-hot lover achool of spy fiction. His antagonist is a blind but lethal leader of a ring of free-lance, secret-selling double agents, and - toward the end he strffs anr hay a te A TA A BERKLEY PAPERBACK—95¢ aR “it has more verve than anything by Mailer since THE NAKED AND THE DEAD” — Denis Donoghue, The. hie Vael Dawiow af Ranke Al LVGCVe 2A ANY PS re ar , 4 > You will find the books advertised on this page available throughout the city, wher- “evet paperhacks are sold. Book World planned it that way for your convenience.’