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Ona tho ronaanrd or ae POLST EA ae ue 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 Campbell set a new speed-on-water record of 328 mp-b., Sir Francis Chichester set a new single stage on solo circummavigation record of 14,- 750 miles in a 119-day voyage ‘and Dr. Barbara Moore set a new greatest-distance-ever- waiked-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 that the record for the longest period in which any volunteer deprivation of all sensory stimu- lation still stands at 92 hours, as it has since 1962. ‘Three hundred and fifty 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 intro- duction and commentary by Joanne Grant. The book is neither threatening nor reassur- ing but it makes an important point: The Negroes have tried petitions, lawsuits, marches, sit- vealing beyond ordinary limi- tations. In The Terrible Choice: The Abortion Dilemma (Ban- tam Extra, 95¢) the medical fects and the nes explored by doctors, psychia- trists, lawyers, clergymen, social scientists and others who par- ticipated in last September's 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 th work of art, a sensual as well as an intellectual history of a man 80 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 and Morais (1929) and The Conquest of Happiness (1930) in 95¢ editions. ‘The Eliminator by Andrew York (Lancer, 75¢) is one i Jonas Wilde, a new entry from the James Bond cold killer-hot lover school 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 smffs a , '\_,_You will find the books advertised on this page available throughout the city, wher- “It has more verve than anything by Mailer ™ since THE NAKED AND THE DEAD” — Denis Donoghue, —— Ever paperhacks are sold. Book World planned it that way for your convenience.’