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...School Bus. If farce keeps rattling through the story, the reason is that Author Nabokov himself is an irrepressibly witty man who can see tragedy through laughter as clearly as he can see life's darkest side from its calmest vantage point. Nabokov teaches European literature at Cornell, is also a dedicated lepidopterist who has discovered about a dozen new species and subspecies. He disclaims all but a writer's interest in nymphets. To get sub-teen patter right, he took rides in a school bus. He obviously also learned much about roadside America. Says he: "I love...
...make luncheons more popular than dinner parties. Diners stopped rushing out for a look when bombs went off, merely glanced at their watches so that they could see which bomb it was in the newspaper next morning. Daily papers printed want ads for apartments "in the calmest quarter of Beirut," as well as the broadcast times and wave lengths for three rebel radio stations that had sprung...
...could briefly match the firepower of a modern cruiser with its close-in salvos of rockets. The enemy on the beach quickly came to respect its sting, but the unhappy crewmen aboard just as quickly discovered that the LSMR was not designed as a pleasure craft. In the calmest seas, it shook like a dog emerging from a bath; in hurricane weather, it performed better, sloughing wildly over the long sea swells-but it was worth a man's life to step out on deck...
Perhaps the calmest doctor in the U.S. last week was Dr. Jonas E. Salk, who was in Washington during Secretary Hobby's conference, but was bent on other business. With his wife and three sons (Peter, 11, Darrell, 8, and Jonathan, 5) he went to the White House rose garden, where Dwight Eisenhower read and presented him with a special citation for a "historic contribution to human welfare ... in the highest tradition of selfless and dedicated medical research...
...both the violence and the cheating were small scale: the democratic process, triumphed. Some 4,200,000 Filipinos went to the polls to mark ballots with pencil and thumbprint. In the cleanest, calmest election in their six years of self-government, they elected vigorous, colorful Ramon Magsaysay, the Philippines' first authentic "man of the people." by a 2-to-1 landslide (2,890,401 to 1,292,395), gave Magsaysay's Nationalist-Democratic coalition a whopping majority in the House (67 to 31, with 4 still in doubt) and a solid one in the Senate...