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Dreyer and Franz occasionally attempt to squirm out of the two-dimensional plane in which Nabokov holds them captive. But most of the time, all three are as flat and glossy as the playing cards suggested by the novel's title. This enables Nabokov to give them the nimble shuffle that characterizes the mercurial plots of all his Action...
...REAL danger spot in Eastern Europe these days is not Czechoslovakia but Poland, where the Bureaucrats are counter-attacking moves that so far have remained almost exclusively on a cultural plane. These Bureaucrats are trying to ride the wave of nationalism but deny the liberalization that may have originally produced it. This is the meaning behind the anti-Semitic themes now being sounded in Poland...
Necessary Frenzy. The Islander is only the second plane designed by Norman and Partner John Britten, both 39 years old. Giving up temporarily after their one previous effort, a 1949 single-seater that flew "like a crippled bird," the two partners began to concentrate on building up what became a worldwide crop-spraying business. They were waiting, says Norman, "until we could see a really good gap in the market before working ourselves up into the necessary frenzy to build another plane...
...appeared, improbably enough, in the Cameroons. There, while investigating a surge in charters of their crop-dusters, Britten and Norman found that the planes were being used to fill an air-travel void left by the retirement of World War II-vintage DC-3s. The partners wasted no time in starting a study of air-taxi services in all parts of the world. What they found was that the average flight was less than 50 miles. The high speed (180 m.p.h. and up) of the typical four-to-five-passenger, $70,000 executive plane then in use on most such...
...Islander is ingeniously simple in design. To save the cost and weight of a retraction system, the landing gear is fixed. To save cabin space, there is no aisle; passengers must climb into their seats through three fuselage doors. To offer performance comparable to STOL (short takeoff and landing) planes such as the $85,000 U.S.-made Helio Twin Courier, the Islander has outsized wings that permit takeoffs in a bare 520 ft., landings at 65 m.p.h. All in all, the Islander offers only one frill; though one big engine would theoretically offer reliability enough, the plane...