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Fortunately, in the Q.E. 2's resting place 270 miles south-southwest of Bermuda the seas were fairly calm, and passengers' morale was in most cases high as a kite. Surrounded by water, water everywhere, no one could complain that there was not a drop to drink. Ordering the bars open round the clock and all grog on the house, dapper Skipper Peter Jackson kept the bands going, the jollity flowing, for two drifting days. "It was all a little like Dunkirk," said one ship's officer. "You know, we English do have a talent for snatching...
...than just dressing up in drag--it also means wooden acting, amiable incompetence in the kicklines, slick p.r. (all that Man-of-the-Year stuff), and a certain alcoholic preppiness. There is also a tradition of making bundles of money on the show, enough for everyone to go to Bermuda and to help support the Hasty Pudding Club for another year. That tradition doesn't seem to be in any danger of dying...
...this book's pretense that there actually was (and is) a James Bond, whose real life corresponds startlingly with Fleming's "fiction." Run to earth in Bermuda and interviewed by Pearson, the real Bond is slightly older than he was at his last appearance in The Man with the Golden Gun (1965). He still has his gun-metal cigarette case, however, and that laconic, infallible way with svelte women and gross villains. Those vodka martinis (shaken, not stirred) are still going down the hatch...
Most of the newcomers who flocked to settle in the state believed that if a desert town was a good place to live, an oasis was even better. So they planted and watered thick lawns of Bermuda grass, neat privet hedges and thousands of shade trees, notably the mulberry. As a result, Arizona's cities now seem almost as lush and lovely as any East Coast suburb...
...those with allergies, the change is almost catastrophic. "In March, this office just pours over with people having trouble with mulberry pollen," says Tucson Dr. L. Winston Martin. Adds Allergist Dr. Rueben Wagelie: "Bermuda grass thrives in this climate and gives off pollen from February to October." Although the doctors are struggling to alleviate their patients' distress, the only real cure is the one Mrs. Sturgis chose in 1953-flight. The plight of the allergy sufferers arouses little compassion in Jack Taylor, owner of three thriving Tucson nurseries: "The pollen isn't any problem...