Word: pencilers
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...that it would be yes. No other answer seemed possible. Nevertheless, tension crackled in the room. Reporters peering down from the balcony could see what was on the one sheet of personal "DDE" stationery the President dropped on the desk. Printed in large letters and underlined with black grease pencil were the words Red Cross, Italians, Farm Bill, Upper Colorado. The fifth subject, doubly underlined, was "Personal...
...Lockheed's F-104, the fastest of the new planes. Pilots call it "a saddle strapped on an engine with a 20-mm. cannon." Pencil-slim, with straight, stubby eight-foot wings, it combines relatively light weight (17,000 lbs.) with a big General Electric J-79 engine. The F-104 will do an estimated Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight...
...bonnet tells him that it is nobler to half-starve than surrender to what he calls "the money-code." A poet of sorts (he has published a slim volume entitled Mice), Gordon has not got much farther because he is usually too cold and hungry even to hold a pencil. Gordon's conscience allows him to earn about ten dollars a week as salesman in a bookshop-which doesn't leave much for even cheap cigarettes. Gordon's big question is not: How can I write better poetry, or how can I make a better world...
These are the missile people, high technologists all. Some of them brood with pencil and paper; others contrive tiny instruments of inconceivable delicacy; others work with great rocket motors that shake the earth with their roars. All of them are racing that day when an enemy-made meteor glows like a spark in the sky. Long before that day, the U.S. must have its own deadly "birds" and many other monsters...
...speck of dust can be tolerated. The air is changed by fans and filters every nine minutes, and positive air pressure is maintained inside the building so that any air leakage will be outward, not inward. Engineers in the drafting rooms are forbidden to tear paper or use pencil erasers (both make dust), and all employees must wear nylon smocks. Among the best assembly workers are crippled men and women who are accustomed to sitting long hours without unnecessary motion...