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...second, the shape of a sake cup; on the third, the shape of a soup bowl; on the fourth, the shape of a saucer." By the end of the fourth day, the pale pink petals begin to wither and turn brown. Soon, all that is left is the seed pod, splayed out like an upright shower nozzle. "It just goes to show you," said Dr. Lotus, "that plants do not undergo evolutionary changes in 2,000 years. Even the size and color is the same...
Marcello is sure the man is dead. As he grows up, he does his best to blot out the thought that he is a murderer and, if only latently, a homosexual. He finds two partial escapes-becoming a bureaucratic pea in the Fascist pod, and marrying a lusty girl named Giulia...
...whining metal cigar. The bomber's air-speed indicator edged up to 370 m.p.h. Over Bangor, Me., an F-86 jet fighter, part of the air-raid interceptor defense, streaked up through the clouds, swept in close to investigate the B-50's strange, roaring belly-pod...
...pod was Pratt & Whitney's biggest, newest jet engine, the J-57, and Pilot Haven was putting it through a flying test. When he landed again at Rentschler field he gave a laconic report: "That monster's got a lot of pizzazz...
...rotored machine which carries 16 combat soldiers and a two-man crew. Other Piasecki models: the 20-passenger H-21, equipped with pontoons for rescue work on snow, ice, water or marsh; the experimental XH-16, with a fuselage as big as a DC-4, and a detachable cargo "pod" the size of a Greyhound...