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...base cunard." Some passengers were talking of an annual reunion aboard the Q.E. 2-in New York harbor. Dr. George Lawrence vowed that his yacht club at Bayside, N.Y., would in future serve all veterans of the non-ship-trip a free memorial drink called the QEEE. It will consist of warm pineapple juice, warm Scotch and a chaser of nostalgia. The abortive cruise inspired another appropriately named drink: a triple boilermaker on the rocks...
...freshman driver practiced by entering spring and hill climb races. Both events consist of a single car racing the course, with the winner determined by the best course time...
While some sophisticated knowledge of botany is required, most of the plant doctors' cures consist of applying rudimentary good sense. Often they only have to keep overly zealous owners from asphyxiating their plants with overdoses of affection, most commonly in the form of too much water or fertilizer...
...reactors to sell to institutions and industry and for use in apartment buildings. He is also developing a smaller model, the size of a flashlight, that he hopes to market for homeowners and motorists at $50 to $100 each. Now Cottell is experimenting with a new emulsion that will consist of 55% oil, 30% water and 15% sludge, the slushy sediment produced by partially treating sewer wastes. Recycled sewage, he says, may well be a fuel of the future...
That may be the reason why, as Nabokov explains in the preface to Strong Opinions, the interviews which make up the bulk of the book all consist of written answers to written questions. Suspicious of alterations in phrase or context, he refuses to give interviews "off the Nabocuff." He rejects the illusions of "bogus informality" and "colorful details." He has made sure that his words are bright and fresh, as crisp and carefully re-written, in the interviews, letters to the editor, and critical pieces assembled in Strong Opinions, as they always are in his novels...