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...book takes Nabokov only to the May morning in 1940, when he and his wife Vera and their only child Dmitri, then 6, embarked for New York from the French port of Saint-Nazaire. Behind him lay two distinct and finished lifetimes. The nearer one was his 20 years as an emigre Russian in Western Europe, teaching tennis and English, writing more or less autobiographical novels in his native tongue. But the farther distance stood closer to his soul, and it stands there still. That was Nabokov's Russian youth, destroyed after 1917 by the Revolution, and constituting...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to conclusion). A poverty-stricken British naval commander (James Mason) concocts an ingenious plot to have the newspapers call him a traitor so he can sue for libel in A Touch of Larceny (1960), co-starring George Sanders and Vera Miles...
...Disney constructed long ago on the back lot of his studio-that typical Midwestern town where the California sun is so hot that the lawns need a fresh coat of green paint every day. He gets a job in the general store and marries the prettiest girl in town (Vera Miles). Unfortunately, Fred and Vera don't have children-possibly because Fred goes trotting off on so many overnight hikes-but they do perform a numbing number of good deeds. All this, says the hero, is "the happiest life a man could have." Maybe so, but Follow Me, Boys...
...population tops 1 billion, and it takes three weeks to travel the traffic-jammed four miles from New York City's Battery Park to Times Square. (Actually, a lot of New Yorkers feel that 2067 is here already.) Caught in "The People Trap" are Stuart Whitman, Vera Miles, Connie Stevens and Lee Grant...
Drawing on the work of the Vera Foundation, a non-profit research organization, the commission will very likely recommend that bail requirements for most crimes be reduced, and that programs which help the poor to pay this money be expanded. Studies by the foundation indicate, according to one staff member, that "bail is not a necessary part of the process--he'll show up for trial without it" and that if the suspect cannot obtain bail money "something about jail seems to increase his chances of being found guilty...