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...need no warming up. The crews are waiting, too, close to the waiting planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...
...find the United States riding the tail end of the post-war boom and the beginning of the rearmament boom. Harry Truman is in his sixth year as President, and his Fair Deal has run down, run into the sand and disappeared. Liberal and progressive forces are in retreat. I found Americans who wondered whether it would be healthy for them to write what they really thought, whether associating with certain acquaintances might not get them into trouble. This was shocking. Undoubtedly just a temporary faltering of the American spirit. But nonetheless shocking...
Americans seem to have a consuming interest in snakes. They must be told repeatedly that there is no such thing as 1) a hoop snake, which is supposed to put its tail in its mouth and roll downhill when frightened, or 2) a milk snake, which is supposed to sneak into barns and milk cows, or 3) a cannibal snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah...
Consolidated-Vultee's B-36F will no look much like the current B-36. It wings will be swept back sharply and its tail surfaces will be radically redesigned The engines will probably be six turboprops, but a design with twelve turbojets may be test-flown first. Expected speed: 550 m.p.h...
Comet Pajdusakova, rather fuzzy and without much of a tail, is on its way back...