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...SMOKE. "Under favorable wind conditions," says the colonel, "demonstrations can be inundated with white, nontoxic, nonstaining, obscuring smoke. The effect is both tactical and psychological. Vision is obscured, sense of direction is lost, and mob unity is destroyed. These advantages are coupled with a harmless throat irritation that induces coughing and causes the individuals affected to leave the area with little desire to return...
...much of a story. The characters for the most part simply talk on the terrace, and as they talk they reveal and heal themselves. Fascinating, sometimes. But sometimes rather tiresomely reminiscent of group therapy-especially when Analyst Williams, who has become a bit sententious in middle age, clears his throat and weighs in with a brave banality: "A home is something two people have between them. Any light is a good light...
...thrust, exactly as planned, was a technical triumph. Lockheed engineers also man aged to test several new rocket-motor features on their roaring monster. The casing was made of a new nickel steel, only ⅜ in. thick; the lining of the booster's throat, seared by exhaust gases, was made of reinforced plastic, far lighter than conventional graphite: jettabs pushed into the racing exhaust to simulate steering. Each of the novelties worked perfectly on the first...
...finally stalked off, leaving the orchestra to play her signature, Over the Rainbow, again and again in a vain attempt to get her back. The next day Judy's manager explained that she was suffering from an allergy that made it necessary for her to spray her throat continually, and she was whisked into an airplane for Sydney so fast that her feet barely touched the ground. There was time, though, to kiss one reporter on the mouth and answer another's question about whether she thought she would retire. "I think so," said Judy. "I would like...
...Wurdalak, longest and scariest episode in the picture, represents that hoary old horror, Boris Karloff, as an East European vampire who carries somebody's head around in a canvas sack, and one dark night, while everybody is sleeping, tears the throat out of his four-year-old grandson. Silly stuff, of course, but it's nice to know that a monster emeritus can somehow manage to eeeeeeeeek out a living...