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...globe it would not only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away. If it fell into the sea, ships would be smashed and coast lines inundated by mighty tidal waves. When a newshawk asked Dr. Harry Edwin Wood of Johannesburg last week what would have happened if "Object Reinmuth" had landed on Earth, he answered with wry circumspection: "It might conceivably have altered the international situation somewhat...
That the finance companies were not entirely innocent of shenanigans appeared, however, with the revelation that they had hired a onetime newshawk named Harry G. Croy to investigate the personnel of the grand jury. Judge Geiger promptly cited him for contempt of court...
Except for shivering, a human being has no protection against cold. When a newshawk asked Dr. Hardy if "goose pimples" were not a protection, the scientist replied that those protuberances were a relic of the days when the ancestors of men were covered by thick hair. The gooseflesh served to fluff the body hair into a more efficient heat-insulating covering...
...system. Loudly demanding evidence of "insurrection" to justify the martial law, the Star-Tribune sent reporters and photographers to the track in the effort to show there was none. The Star-Tribune shortly changed its cry to "freedom of the press" when its emissaries' passes were withdrawn, one newshawk was escorted from the track by troopers with drawn bayonets...
Some of the characters who people these sequences include a sardonic anthropologist named Dr. Thumb, who involves himself joyfully on Trolley's side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb...