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Volkswagen is retaliating by stepping up its h.p. from 57 to 60 and producing two versions of its famed bug. Both will have essentially the same design as the model of 1970 or, for that matter, 1949. A new standard "mini-bug" will be stripped of some chrome and door pockets, but will be equipped with, among other improvements, an automatic switch that will cut off the headlights when the ignition is turned off. It will list for $1,780 on the East and Gulf coasts, compared with $1,839 for the '70 beetle...
...underground" programs superimposed on the official slate meant that we suffered perhaps 80-odd speakers where half that number might have better served. Probably we could have done without contributions made by the circulation manager for a Boston tabloid, the biologist who touted a miracle bug-killer (in which, it developed, he held some proprietary interest), the Time-Life poobah who saw no First Amendment dangers in newsmen being required to surrender their notes or tapes to Big Brother's agents in Washington, or the faculty-tie who severely lobbied in behalf of Foundations remaining untaxed despite those many abuses...
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Powerful Parasite. The classic disease is caused by Vibrio cholera bacteria, comma-shaped microbes that multiply in the intestine and thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bug responsible for the present pandemic, a strain first identified in 1906 at the Tor quarantine station in Egypt, is prolific and can quickly cause death if not treated promptly. It multiplies rapidly in the gut, producing millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts...
Lightning Bug is a modest but totally satisfying novel. Like the little boy Donny, the author spent his childhood summers in the Ozarks, and to him the men of Stay More are still gods. In his private time capsule, the arrival of the mail and the ice peddler or-evil day -the revenuer become the rituals of an obscure epoch. Like the late James Agee, he reveres the most ordinary aspects" of the lives of unexceptional people, and with lyrical comedy and irony, he makes his joy infectious...