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...fact that would have shocked the farmers of Sam Carver's generation. Joe (with a well-educated eye on the long-term balances of farm economics, insists that he be left free to sell all his milk to the cheese factory or, more rewarding still, let his calves suck longer, thereby adding precious pounds...
...futuristic-looking machine uses a simple new method of propulsion: the ducted air fan. Two enclosed counterrotating propellers under the platform (to keep the platform from spinning) suck air down through holes in the circular fuselage, providing downward thrust, thus lifting the plane. All the pilot has to do in steering is lean in the desired direction. Still very much an experiment, the light, easy-to-operate Flying Carpet may serve the armed forces as a courier aircraft, scout and air ambulance...
...princess should. And when all else fails, there is Keenan Wynn. As somebody called Kovin, a confidant of the prince, poor Keenan has practically nothing to do all through the picture except to stride up and down in a red plush, heel-length smoking jacket, scratch his peruke, suck on a long-stemmed pipe, and grunt. It all gets a little eerie, after a while...
...bomb (equivalent to 5,000 to 15,000 tons of TNT) from an airplane. Since the bomb would explode in midair, it would be less likely to siphon up particles from the ground and therefore would produce a less dangerous fallout. The clouds from nuclear explosions that do not suck up particles from the earth travel long distances (sometimes around the world) and descend in such minute particles that they are seldom dangerous...
...lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...