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Nabokov's tall, gentle father was an ex-Guards officer who could trace his family tree back to ancient Muscovite princes; he was also a professor of criminal law, and that rarity in Czarist Russia, a liberal politician as well. He held a seat in the first Russian Parliament. In 1906?when Vladimir was seven ?Czar Nicholas II illegally dissolved the Parliament less than a year after its establishment. Nabokov's father signed a manifesto exhorting popular resistance to the move?and went to jail...
...upon them, sweeping away five Americans, including Everett, and two Sherpa porters. The eighth man, Louis F. Reichardt, 27, of Palo Alto, Calif., was out of the slide's path and survived. He spent the next several hours searching for his companions. Late in the week, not a trace had been found. It was the worst mountaineering disaster in Nepal's history...
...without being overwhelming. He has an impressive head of grey-black-white hair, combed straight back. And, for all his size, he has that cultured look of American aristocracy. If you catch his face from just the right angle, a side view from behind the ear, there is a trace of John Lindsay. You can see how Styron supported McCarthy but not Robbert Kennedy...
...expected a rubber stamp. Even during the campaign, Finch had demonstrated his independence. He opposed, for example, the vote-catching anti-pornography legislation that Reagan vigorously supported. "Finch has adroitly managed to establish an aura of independence without really differing consequentially," said Assembly Democratic Leader Jesse Unruh, with a trace of admiration. "And that takes some doing...
...plotting their paths and looking for wobbles. They devoted most of their attention to Barnard's star because it is the closest star visible in the Northern Hemisphere and moves across the sky ; rapidly in relation to the distant "fixed" stars, making it relatively easy for astronomers to trace its path. "We concentrated and gambled on one object," i says Van de Kamp. "It was one of those crazy, stubborn, all-out efforts that paid...