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• Bestsellers Magazine has given its first Outstanding Achievement In Original Paperback Publishing Award to Bantam Books and Popular Library, jointly and severally, for their outstanding achievement in publishing the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy. The award consists of the Warren Report and a gold medal, laid to rest jointly in a block of lucite crystal, which will not be opened in our lifetime.

• The National Council for Civic Responsibility has folded for lack of funds, although local C’s of C.R. may linger on under the aegis of the Public Affairs Institute, a tax-exempt foundation. The New York Times, which did not report the NCCR’s passing until exactly eleven days after the fact, had found its formation at the height of the Presidential campaign splashy front-page same-day news. But then, the NCCR was tax-exempt-non-politically-dedicated to stamping out Right Wing Extremism, which does have premium news value in a campaign in which one of the candidates—the one opposed by the Times, by the way—is a Right Wing Extremist. Even eleven days late it is real news that an explicitly anti-conservative group folded for lack of funds. And good riddance.

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• Bestsellers Magazine has given its first Outstanding Achievement In Original Paperback Publishing Award to Bantam Books and Popular Library, jointly and severally, for their outstanding achievement in publishing the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy. The award consists of the Warren Report and a gold medal, laid to rest jointly in a block of lucite crystal, which will not be opened in our lifetime.

• The National Council for Civic Responsibility has folded for lack of funds, although local C’s of C.R. may linger on under the aegis of the Public Affairs Institute, a tax-exempt foundation. The New York Times, which did not report the NCCR’s passing until exactly eleven days after the fact, had found its formation at the height of the Presidential campaign splashy front-page same-day news. But then, the NCCR was tax-exempt-non-politically-dedicated to stamping out Right Wing Extremism, which does have premium news value in a campaign in which one of the candidates—the one opposed by the Times, by the way—is a Right Wing Extremist. Even eleven days late it is real news that an explicitly anti-conservative group folded for lack of funds. And good riddance.