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POPE DISSATISFIED WITH FIGHT ON EVIL

The Low-Down

On sale in bookstores, newsstands, and drugstores all over the U.S. last week went a book which its publishers trumpeted as an alltime bestseller. There was a seed of truth in the claim. The first printing of 125,000 had been snapped up by booksellers in advance of publication date. The book, U.S.A. Confidential (Crown; $3.50), was blurbed as the real "lowdown" on sex, crime and politics in the U.S. But for newsmen, politicos and other early readers of the book, it was...

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