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Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...
...white cells pass through and are carefully collected in a second centrifuge. Meanwhile the plasma--the liquid medium in which the cells are suspended--flows into a mixing vessel where zinc salts are added to precipitate the gamma globulins of the blood and certain other plasma proteins...
Then Captain Carlsen went home to Woodbridge (N.J.) for a few weeks' rest before taking command of another ship. His boss, Hans Isbrandesen, said it would be a fine new vessel of 11,500 tons, bigger and faster than the old one. Her name: Flying Enterprise...
...businesslike in the face of the storm. Wind and seas rose, hour by hour; by nightfall the vessel was pitching & rolling with sickening violence: Furniture slid and tumbled, tools leaped clattering from their hooks, dishes broke, and over the bedlam the wind yowled and screamed. At dawn two unbelievable waves (sailors swore they were 75 ft. high) fell on the Flying Enterprise. With a cannonlike bang, her shuddering deck and hull cracked open, just forward of her squat, white superstructure...
...master of the transport Greely, eyeing the Flying Enterprise through flying spume, was appalled, even though four of her five holds were still tight. "I believed that what watertight integrity she possessed would collapse," he said, "sinking her immediately." The vessel's owners urged Carlsen by radio against "further risking your life." When the message was relayed, a new storm was smashing the ship, but he replied: "I am remaining till vessel saved or sunk...