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...Flight 548 had something special that infected even the travel-weary and the blasé. Bubbly, chattery, their eyes dancing with excitement, came a swarm of 18 young members of the U.S. figure-skating team, headed with their coaches for the world championship competitions at Prague. Fresh-faced and eager, they were 'the cream of America's talented skating stars, experts in a sport that requires hard selfdiscipline, dedication and diligence. In the group were the brother-and-sister teams of Laurie and William Hickox and Ila and Ray Hadley, the married team of Patricia and Robert Dineen...
...EVENING CONCERT--MendelssohnRuy Blas Overture; Ives Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano; Couperin-L'Apotehose de Luly; Dvorak-Trio in g, opus 26; Mozart-Symphony...
...Blasé Beasts. Last year safari activity accounted for more than half of East Africa's $17 million tourist revenue, and is still growing. There are seven safari firms operating out of Nairobi this year (v. one in 1939). Once confined to a 100-mile radius of civilized Nairobi (pop. 230,000), the quest for big game has spread from northern Uganda to southern Tanganyika. The white hunters who lead safaris are making more money than ever-$7,000 a year is average and $14,000 is not uncommon for the popular hunters. Luxury is at an alltime high...
...from Europe. Overland, which expected about 50 tourists at most during the first three months of 1959, now expects the total to top 800 before the season is over. The animals in East Africa's national parks, secure in the protection afforded them by the government, are becoming blasé about camera buffs...
...OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, by Pierre Boulle (281 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), is another one of those novels that try to prove that good and kind Americans are really dumb Americans. Ironic Frenchman Boulle (The Bridge over the River Kwai) is too blasé to join forces openly with embittered Briton Graham (The Quiet American) Greene, but he makes it plain in his book that there is no place for naive, warmhearted U.S. do-gooders in cold-war country. True to his Gallic instincts, he makes his American boob a woman. Patricia is the wife of a Frenchman who expertly...