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Hardly anybody noticed the word "nonlethal." Compared with napalm bombs that incinerate whole villages, or white phosphorous shells that burn a man to the bone, the temporarily disabling gases used in Viet Nam seem more humane than horrible. But the words "gas warfare" and "experimenting" stirred macabre memories. There was the afternoon of April 22, 1915, when German infantrymen gave the world its first whiff of poison-gas warfare by sending a huge, grey-green cloud of noxious chlorine rolling over two French divisions in the trenches at Ypres, killing 5,000, incapacitating 10,000, and cutting a 31-mile...
...secret that large Soviet spaceships such as the three-man Voskhod I were capable of many more actions than they had accomplished. Because of the lack of a big booster to launch them, U.S. man-carrying capsules, including Gemini, are comparatively light and have to be pared to the bone to save fractions of ounces. The Voskhods are roomy, and Soviet designers make the most of their space...
...recipe. Take "first a very long and discursive line of anything between 25 and 35 syllables (but never either more or less), followed by two lines of five stressed syllables each." The first line must be finely chopped until "purely descriptive and richly adjectival," the second "pared to the bone, neat and direct," the third a dream or memory...
...that end, Special Envoy Kurt Birrenbach flew to Jerusalem and was astounded to discover that Israeli officials were not exactly jumping with joy. For one thing, anti-German feelings lie bone-deep in many Israelis; for another, everyone recognized that Erhard's decision was prompted less by a desire to do right by Israel than by a need to slap back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been diplomatically flirting with East Germany...
...when four Baltimore physicians got a state charter for the world's first dental college, dentistry was still largely concerned with replacement of defective or missing teeth. One of its most impressive achievements was the ill-fitting sets of artificial teeth that had been carved from hippopotamus bone and mounted in gold by Boston-born John Greenwood more than 40 years before for George Washington...