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...symbols of the Soviet Union's sudden greatness are powered (as befits a state whose philosophy is materialism in flux) by twin motors, and airborne on the wings of mighty, pulsing transport planes. Fanaticism, like the air, knows no frontiers, and Moscow's big, drab airport (once the Imperial Field of Mars) is now the visible focus of Communism's pretentions to world dominion...
After the liberation, drab life closed in again, and he started taking eubine, a morphine derivative. It increased his boudoir prowess. His girl, Jeanne, lived with her family and saw him only on weekends. So at first he took the stuff only when he was with Jeanne. Then he began doping during the week. Soon he was forging doctors' prescriptions for eubine in tremendous quantities...
...worked his way through London University by writing digests of textbooks for lazy classmates; he worked his way through the rest of his life by doing just about the same thing. His courage and intelligence, activated rather than stunned by a drab, lower-middle-class childhood, were touched off by the kind of illumination most characteristic of his day-rationalism...
...drab PBY with red star markings landed at Tokyo's Atsugi Airport. Out squirmed a crowd of uniformed Russians and a stoop-shouldered Chinese peering myopically through violet-tinted horn rims. Henry Pu-yi, the perennial puppet, had been fished out of history's dustbin to testify at the trial of the Jap war criminals...
...Quonset huts and many of the more substantial installations have been pulled down and carried away to Panama. The broad macadamized fighter strip is now abandoned, and only our three visiting B-17s are visible beside the longer main strip. Soon there may be only the caretakers left. Dull, drab Seymour Island may shortly revert to the goats, and the archipelago itself to the naturalists...