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Last fall 31 Harvard experts began their work, and were appalled at what they found. They were so alarmed that they issued an emergency interim report on safety alone. The report was a shocker: of the city's 23 school buildings, the Harvardmen said, 14 were so dangerous that they should be closed...
...shocker that leaves Humbert a chastened European innocent is that Lolita seduces him. For she is an experienced hoyden who has already been ravished at a fashionable summer camp. In the second volume the sexual farce is more corrosive and the human comedy less exuberant. The couple embark on a kind of illicit grand tour of the 48 states; the settings-hotels, motels and tourist traps-have the infernal cast of a Hieronymus Bosch painting...
...this was somewhat surprising in a man whose political handbook ever since his student days in France has been a volume called The Technique of the Coup d'Etat. But the real shocker came when the Thai strongman informed his countrymen that they were free to organize political parties and start campaigning for the 1957 parliamentary elections...
Speaking at a medical soiree honoring him in Buffalo, New Orleans' famed Surgeon Alton Ochsner finally went all-out in his six-year battle against smoking, as the primary cause of lung cancer. Tobacco-shunning Dr. Ochsner's No. 1 shocker, raising a prospect of future U.S. smoke-easies: legal prohibition of smoking may become necessary if the incidence of lung cancer continues to increase at its present alarming rate...
...real shocker and indication of the strength and depth of this team is the fact that track captain Dick Wharton is listed no higher than eleventh, even though among the top five last year...