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■ Just Out: Anthony Burgess pictures America today as the citadel of crime, vulgarity, and mess in his new novel, The Clockwork Testament or Enderby’s End (Knopf, $5.95). . . . The Pulse of Freedom is an admiring history of the ACLU by staffer Alan Reitman (Norton, $12.50). . . . Remember Eric Partridge’s classic, Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English’! Now some 50,000 pre- 1914 words have been extracted to form The Macmillan Dictionary of Historical Slang ($25). For the same house, Chaim Bermant explores Jewish family life in The Walled Garden ($12.95). . . . One publisher contracted for William Satire’s study of the Nixon White House Before the Fall, then rejected it. Now Doubleday is bringing it out ($12.50). … The Evening Colonnade is a collection of the late Cyril Connolly’s criticism (Harcourt, $15).

■ Paperbacks. From Dell, Marvin and Bernard Kalb’s Kissinger (Feb;, $1.95). . . . Next month, three from Macmillan at $3.95 each: Jane’s Pocket Book of Modern Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles, Jane’s Pocket Book of Military Transport and Training Aircraft, and Jane’s Pocket Book of Light Aircraft. From the same house, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays and Documentary Materials includes work by the subject himself and over thirty other contributors including Djilas, Medvedev, Kennan, Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Heinrich Boll, and Irving Howe (March, $4.95). . . . Just out from Berkley, William Buckley’s Four Reforms ($1.25).

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■ Just Out: Anthony Burgess pictures America today as the citadel of crime, vulgarity, and mess in his new novel, The Clockwork Testament or Enderby’s End (Knopf, $5.95). . . . The Pulse of Freedom is an admiring history of the ACLU by staffer Alan Reitman (Norton, $12.50). . . . Remember Eric Partridge’s classic, Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English’! Now some 50,000 pre- 1914 words have been extracted to form The Macmillan Dictionary of Historical Slang ($25). For the same house, Chaim Bermant explores Jewish family life in The Walled Garden ($12.95). . . . One publisher contracted for William Satire’s study of the Nixon White House Before the Fall, then rejected it. Now Doubleday is bringing it out ($12.50). … The Evening Colonnade is a collection of the late Cyril Connolly’s criticism (Harcourt, $15).

■ Paperbacks. From Dell, Marvin and Bernard Kalb’s Kissinger (Feb;, $1.95). . . . Next month, three from Macmillan at $3.95 each: Jane’s Pocket Book of Modern Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles, Jane’s Pocket Book of Military Transport and Training Aircraft, and Jane’s Pocket Book of Light Aircraft. From the same house, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays and Documentary Materials includes work by the subject himself and over thirty other contributors including Djilas, Medvedev, Kennan, Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Heinrich Boll, and Irving Howe (March, $4.95). . . . Just out from Berkley, William Buckley’s Four Reforms ($1.25).