Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named Rex. The well-named Quick Tourist Office concentrates its energies on selling visitors Swiss watches, Belgian francs and Liechtenstein cuckoo clocks, which are made in West Germany. Since the country's medieval castles bear signs saying "No Castle Visiting," insistent rubbernecks usually get to see the salami skin factory or else one of two plants where strikingly healthy Liechtensteiners turn out false teeth and artificial limbs for world markets...
...knows that boots must be licked, or boots will trample his beloved roses and his noble name into the burning yellow dust of Sicily. He knows-but can a Prince of Salina swallow his pride to save his estates? Can a Leopard change his spots to save his skin...
...near flower beds. Aleksei Jr., a towheaded eight-year-old with hornrimmed glasses, zooms around in a green, gasoline-powered Cheetah Cub Car, an American-made miniature sports model that Dad picked up on a visit to the U.S. The seat of the Cheetah is covered with real leopard skin...
...Garden of Allah-in case you'd like to do a bit of planting"). Then he runs off the stage and up to his flat, where he makes a few fast phone calls and moves a shipment of bootleg bellywash. Then he runs back to the skin parlor for the second show ("This old slag takes care of her health-if she's not in bed by eleven, she goes home"). Then he runs down the street to a jobber he knows and sells him a sack of smuggled watches. Then he runs back to the dirty...
...nuclear bomb explodes in the vacuum of space, it does not give the great flash of light that it gives in the atmosphere. About two-thirds of its total energy appears as a brief, enormously powerful burst of soft X rays, rather like those that are used to treat skin diseases. Those soft X rays cause a soft glow when they hit the atmosphere, but they are dissipated long before they reach the earth. There are also small amounts of gamma rays. Like the X rays, these are electromagnetic radiation that travel with the speed of light (186,000 miles...