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...engines still turning over. But when Pilot Conrad Shinn gunned his engines and fired four JATO (jet assist) bottles for takeoff, the R4D stuck fast, its skis frozen to the icy surface. Only by blasting off his eleven remaining JATO bottles did Shinn wrench the plane loose and stagger into the thin air at well below normal take-off speed. Back at McMurdo, Dufek ordered establishment of the Siple camp delayed for two weeks ("If it was too cold for me, it will be too cold for those Seabees"), then headed off to the hospital with a serious case...
...nose, has in one way been a hindrance to its penetration in society. The ramifications of orgonomy into all branches of science, stemming from the single basic discovery of orgone energy, the erstwhile hypothetical ether which science, for good reason, has never been able to abandon, stagger the average and academic imagination. People cannot readily grasp a science whose track leads from the understanding of neurosis to "Cosmic Orgone Engineering." They become suspicious, get scared off by the magnitude of what confronts them. Yet all of Reich's great findings are factual, demonstrable, irrefutable, as were those of Galileo...
Dwarfs into Sausage. Dwarfs mated to dwarfs produce all dwarfs, but although dwarfs are potentially fertile, they rarely reach breeding age. Many are born dead or die soon after birth. Those that live to maturity grow about half the size of normal beef cattle. They wheeze and stagger; their bellies swell, and they often die of bloat. Dwarf beef is of poor quality. Most dwarfs that go to market are ground into sausage...
These are figures that stagger the imagination. In no previous war, revolution* or human holocaust, either in the days of Tamerlane or in the time of Hitler, have so many people been destroyed in so short a period. Because it is hard for the mind to visualize so vast a slaughter in human terms, the Communists have been able to reap an advantage from the very size of their funeral pyre: many Westerners, finding the monstrous incredible, cannot see the blood on the hand of pretended friendship proffered by Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung...
...some explosive material: the part of Frankie in Carson McCullers' Member of the Wedding. It was make or break for Julie. At 24, she was asked to play a girl of twelve, a poor little nobody-wants-it that has just burst angry out of the egg to stagger about on guessing feet, with one world in pieces behind it and the next not yet ready to offer its warm wing. The part was cruelly long and difficult, and the actress found herself braced between fierce tensions. The mood was Tarkington, but it was Proust as well. Frankie...