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Over the English Channel near Lands End, a Mosquito light bomber climbed to 36,400 feet. Lanky "boffin" (scientific expert) Gerald Bernard Lockee Bayne of the Ministry of Supply touched the bomb-release button, and "Vicky," the Ministry's bomb-airplane-rocket, plunged down through the thin, cold...
Martin Lo's followers had been told that Sept. 1 was the "day of deliverance" when a U.S. destroyer and a Liberty ship would arrive to help them (the natives believed that the U.S. was a Communist state). The Liberty ship would carry a mosquito-proof hut and a kerosene refrigerator for every Martin Lo-er. The natives around the flagpole were the reception committee...
...Manhattan milliners, after years of trying to make the American woman look like a helicopter after a crash landing, finally did it. Observers at autumn style shows came away feeling top-heavy. Some hats looked like dishpans swathed in varicolored mosquito netting, others like sour-milk hotcakes. Most of them were as big as barrelheads. It seemed almost certain that by spring U.S. women would have neck muscles like Jim Londos...
...Coney Island, crowded with an estimated 1,300,000 the first day of the long July 4 weekend. By the millions, other U.S. citizens swarmed out of their cities and headed for a holiday. Some 30,000,000 cars jockeyed for space on the roads. This week, mosquito-bitten and sunburned, Americans were back at work and the nation counted its 553 holiday dead: 163 drowned, 271 killed on the highways, 119 dead in other accidents...
...horror that haunts this valley is a disease called verruga (literal translation: warts). It is transmitted by an almost invisible sandfly (Phlebotomus verrucarum), smaller than a mosquito, which bites only at night. Penetrating the finest netting and seams in clothing, the insect infects its victim with a parasite (Bartonella bacilliformis) that destroys red blood cells, produces a high fever and often kills within a few days...