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...Contrast between the pressure inside and the vacuum outside tends to make the suit as tight as a drumhead. To move at all, arms and legs must be fitted with accordion-like joints. To judge by his motions, Leonov could move his arms fairly freely, but his legs and torso seemed stiff and straight most of the time...
Limberer for Lava. A suit designed for use in weightless space can include several hundred pounds of instruments, oxygen, propellant, cooling agent, tools and other supplies. The wearer will not feel the weight, only the inertial mass. For some missions his less and torso will need little flexibility; they can stay stiff while the man works with his arms and moves around with his rocket thrusters...
...could never see far enough to know for sure where the padding left off and the girl began. Now, at long last, it is all quite clear. Thanks to the Nude Look, there is barely an undergarment around that will fudge the facts of the matter, afford a torso in distress the hidden means by which private deficits have been passing, through the centuries, for assets in public...
...first train pulled out of City Hall Station with the mayor at its sterling-silver throttle and a load of top-hatted dignitaries who made the nine-mile run to 145th Street and Broadway in 26 minutes. Today, the littered cars, clashing and swaying through the underground dark, packed torso to torso or eerie with emptiness, have increasingly become hunting grounds for the city's sick and sinister creatures of prey. Complaints of major crimes increased 9% in the city during 1964, the police department announced last week. But complaints of serious crimes-such as robbery, mugging and armed...
...accept death." And he luridly describes several suicides he witnessed (or imagined?), such as the beautiful girl who drowned herself and was washed ashore on a river bank, "beyond all human nakedness in the inaccessible solitude of death-her white firm breasts are lifted to the sunlight-a heroic torso of marble-blond stone in the soft grass...