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...resold at an enormous profit. There are more cars in Laos, mostly purchased with U.S. aid dollars, than there are miles of road to run them on. Some other mysterious recent requests by Lao entrepreneurs include one for 37 tons of toothpaste, another for 4½ tons of feather dusters...
Birds of a Feather...
Today, the U.S. again has 40-odd missiles in operation or under development, and some of them are birds of a feather, e.g., the Navy's air-to-air Sidewinder and the Air Force's Falcon. The University of Buffalo's Chancellor Clifford C. Furnas, onetime (December 1955-February 1957) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development, recalls that it was all but impossible to get the Navy and Air Force to work together on a single 500-mile-range, subsonic, surface-to-surface missile: "As a consequence, we have two such missiles...
...course, much more than financial improvement is needed to take the futility and ennui out of military life and make it an attractive and respectable career, but the "green pastures plan" could put an end to widespread feather-bedding, and to small and unnecessary jobs in which no one could take pride...
...little woman in black walked slowly from a wing of the ornate Kurzaal at Scheveningen, The Netherlands, bowed to the scattered applause, and took her place at the piano. For the next 90 minutes she kept her eyes fixed on the keyboard while her groomed fingers agilely feather-dusted and trip-hammered through Bach's Goldberg Variations. At the last note, she slumped in her seat as wave after wave of applause broke over her bowed head...