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they fell like damp ashes...
...asked in an anxious voice, 'What about them? Still alive?' The white-haired man replied, 'Yesterday they were.' Arriving at a piece of low, damp land near a stream, Nam Khom stooped and called to the others: 'You see? You see?' The crippled farmer let his crutches drop and sat down for a better look. On the surface of the damp earth, he saw traces of earthworms. He uttered a low cry: 'They are alive! Alive! This earth is not to be abandoned.'" The farmers' faith is described...
...Voyce admits that there are still a few kinks in his craft-the "really shoddy" mufflers, a laminated-wood prop that deteriorates rapidly in damp climates, a carburetor that gums up in salt water, and the vehicle's tendency to eject its driver over the bow when it is stopped quickly in water. But he expects to have the troubles ironed out in time to manufacture 10,000 Spectras in 1970 and claims already to have orders for 8,000. "People literally get freaked out by the Spectra," he says, and prophesies that one day "the Hovercraft will...
...vestments designed by Matisse, and the Met's Anna Moffo sang sacred music at what may well have been the first midnight Mass at Sainte-Chapelle since the time of Louis XIV. It was celebrated in relative comfort. Leaving no detail to chance, Shriver had ordered the usually damp and chilly 13th century chapel to be heated two days in advance...
Would there be any defense? Certainly, says Stone. By having its population jump between the peaks of the ground waves stirred up by China, a threatened nation could damp them out before they grew intense enough to cause damage. There is one catch: the target nation would, of course, be less populous than China. Thus, to effectively counteract the massive Chinese geophysical aggression, its people would have to jump from higher platforms...