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...always the same type of injury or shock. In fact, said Dr. Ingalls, the trouble with researchers who have been looking for a single, simple cause is that they were like the three blind men describing an elephant: one found it all foot, another all trunk, the third all tail...
...first Red jet got past Stephens, who "pulled the second MIG into my sights and fired. Debris flew off his wing tip and he went into a dive and got away across the border." Brown, meanwhile, was on the tail of the first enemy. Said Brown later: "He was diving at a near vertical angle. I figured we were both doing more than 600 miles an hour. Anyway, the last time I looked at the airspeed indicator it was registering 600 and I think I picked up speed after that...
Last summer, to get the animals they needed, the research advocates drew up a proposition for the ballot. Against them were the usual animal defense crews and such outfits as the Mercy Crusade, Tail-waggers' Foundations and Animal Allies. Fake pictures of torture of animals were stuffed under doors. Grisly tales were circulated that doctors, not content with canine victims, were mangling babies. Handouts denounced medical researchers as fiends, ghouls, sadists, murderers...
...escape from the crucifying emotional matter of the gains and losses. One more dazzling Irishman had talked himself out of life into the heavens like a whizzing rocket and had come down dead and extinct like the stick. One more superbly agile lizard had lived off its own tail, consumed itself and come back to exactly what it was before...
Truman's speech, said Tarle, was "compounded of syrupy speculations." The U.S. President "resembled most the Dickensian Pecksniff. They have the same manner-alternating a fox's tail and a wolf's teeth . . . [Truman's] distinguishing trait is a rather disgusting simulation of sincerity, simplicity and good humor . . . [His true policy] is an appeal to force [concealed by] a mixture of oleaginous hypocrisy and disgusting boasting...