Word: lotuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE LOTUS by John Hersey. 683 pages. Knopf...
...Adano, The Wall, A Single Pebble) are lightly fictionalized feature stories lifted from current history. His worst novels (The Marmot Drive, The Child Buyer) are nonjournalistic creations of an uncreative imagination. But even in the bad novels Author Hersey has always tried terribly hard to make literature. In White Lotus, he apparently tried only to make the Book of the Month Club...
...result, San Diego over the years became a land of lotus eaters, so immersed in its happy, old-fashioned ways that the future seemed irrelevant. By failing to diversify its industrial base, the city by 1961 had saddled itself with a 7.5% unemployment rate, far higher than in nearby Los Angeles. Worse, for the long term, was the loss of skilled workers as a result of cutbacks in the aerospace industry, their biggest employer. In 1960, when a group of businessmen got the results of an exhaustive study of the city's economic prospects, the outlook was so gloomy...
...when an official gave him the checkered flag of victory. In the pits, Chapman screamed and waved a sign with a big number 1 on it. The official had goofed: Clark still had a lap to go, and Surtees was closing in. Furious. Jimmy stomped down the throttle; the Lotus snarled around the track once more, coasted into the pits-the winner by a comfortable 31 sec. "Imagine," sighed an awed South African fan, "what Clark could do if he were feeling...
...With his Lotus finally functioning perfectly and nine points chalked up toward the 1965 Grand Prix championship, Clark quickly forgot the pain in his back. "It feels good to be back on top again," he beamed. Come June, factory mechanics will replace his Lotus' 195-h.p. V-8 Climax engine with a hush-hush 16-cylinder job that is supposed to have something of the same effect as gluing two of the old engines together. "Nothing much to it," shrugged a Lotus engineer. "We are simply picking up a bit more power, that...