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...called that because a 91-year-old automotive pioneer named Loren Hardeman sees his great-granddaughter Betsy swimming naked one day, and this makes him think about cars, and he decides to come out of retirement, wrench control of his company from his stodgy grandson Loren 111, and build a splendid new automobile to be called the Betsy. Cynics may mutter at this point that Robbins is the only North American still extant who confuses girls with sedans. But no! Hailey's novel also jubilates over the introduction of a new auto. It may explain something to point...
Anyway, old Hardeman hires a burnt-out race-car driver named Angelo Pe-rino to get the Betsy into production. It does not seem more than usually absurd that in due course Loren III becomes furious and hires crooks to sabotage his own firm. There is a lot of sex, much of it involving a lady test driver who combusts spontaneously whenever she hears the roar of an engine...
...NIGHT COUNTRY, REFLECTIONS OF A BONE HUNTING MAN by Loren Eiseley. 240 pages. Scribners...
...quite sure who Loren Eiseley is? One of those philosophizing scientists-isn't he?-constantly being praised for his literary graces? A figure on TV panel discussions, a professor somewhere or other, repeatedly granting interviews on the meaning of life and the future of mankind...
...there is another Loren Eiseley, as this eighth book of his makes clear. This is the Eiseley who grew up listening to his father recite Shakespeare to his stone-deaf wife; the Eiseley who rode the rails during the Depression, who has spent much of his life hunting for hones in caves, and who believes that the process of evolution will lead in startling directions: "I always say to myself hopefully, 'After us the dragons...