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...Alice in Wonderland...
Mask & Fin. Since the naked eye is all but blind under water, the basic equipment is a good face mask that will transform the murk into a wonderland. With the addition of a simple snorkel tube poking above the surface, the swimmer can cruise indefinitely on the surface with his face buried under water. So equipped, swimmers can peer for happy hours into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico or forest-bound lakes in Wisconsin, study the toadfish that fusses like an old lady off Long Island. Ducking beneath the surface, the strong-lunged pry abalone from the California...
...Logic of Wonderland. In Choisy-le-Roi, near Paris, police had ignored refugee Soviet Engineer Taras Hryciuk, instead hauled off his daughter Tamara, whose crime seemingly consisted of being president of the Ukrainian Students' Association in Paris. Father Dragoun, rector of the Croatian Catholic Mission in Paris, was sure that his offense had been officiating at a memorial mass for the late Cardinal Stepinac...
...kind of Alice-in-Wonderland logic was visible in the arrest of scores of teen-age Hungarians-many of whom had left Hungary as children, had no politics now, and added gaiety to the exile gathering by singing songs and dancing the czardas. But no brand of logic served to explain the internment of a clutch of former Spanish Loyalists for whom the only important enemy remains Generalissimo Franco. "I am absolutely not interested in Khrushchev," spat one of the Spaniards, a remark that could equally well have been made by the three interned Nationalist Chinese consular employees...
...advertising ("a soggy, overripe fungus"), Guy Lombardo, Ernest Hemingway, and Harry J. Anslinger, the head of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics. TV is in the hands of "lentilheaded sponsors' wives" and represents "some sort of gargantuan hoax," with one or two exceptions. (His own talk program, Alex in Wonderland, which is now being syndicated nationally, "is as refreshing as a breath of stale air in a vacuum.") As for people in general, they are "adenoidal baboons" caught in life's "erratically op erated sausage machine...