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...alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...
...Force, which already has General Electric working on an atom-powered engine for aircraft (TIME, Sept. 17), this week put Pratt & Whitney on the job as well. Said a terse release: "A contract to work on the development of an atomic aircraft engine has been awarded to Pratt & Whitney . . ." How much money was involved, or how far along on the job Pratt & Whitney already is, nobody would...
Whenever some special creative ability is vital to Russia, as in the fields of science and war, it is imported from the West. The Soviet Union is an avid subscriber to technical magazines the world over. Of the four Russian types of car, two are Packards. The atom bomb and the MIG fighter came from the West-if only from Eastern Germany...
...When the Atom Bomb exploded, the fears that had always haunted the febrile brain of human beings--fear of death, fear of living, fear of pain and hunger, fear of magic and the night found new roots in the dark uncertainties of life...
...course. Now, now boys, mustn't touch the ferris wheel, must we. There now, look out for that motor... What madame?" I took the reference with a shrug and started to ask about the latest in atom bomb kits. She shoved a microscope at me and raced down to the other end of the counter. Two of "my" boys were racing the mechanical cars head...