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Incredible feet, swollen knees, a body like a fat egg, a bent neck, tufted cranium, misty eyes very high and close together and a heavy spatulate appendage, blotched and yellow, more like a piece of foot gear than a nose-that was balaeniceps rex, the shoebill stork, who arrived in Manhattan last week, cabined in the officers' quarters of his steamer, from Lake No, near Khartoum, Upper Egypt. He was one of five specimens that collectors have captured in 35 years. Two of his kin died some years ago in England. Two stalk dejectedly about the zoo at Cairo...
There were few freaks on exhibit: an amphibious Peugeot, a motor boat on wheels, ready to take to the water by a simple shifting of gear; the Bleriot wood-burning car (TIME, Oct. 11) generating gas from fagots; a Fiat with an oak-mahogany paneling, interior drive, 26-h.p.; an electric Parville, claimed to run 930 miles without a recharged battery...
...roadhouse where w.ne flows freely and time is lightly slain. Goodnight points out significantly that a car enables a student of weak character to procure liquor more easily. Whether a student of strong character can procure his liquor easily without a car or can resist the steering gear's natural tendency to veer toward a blind tiger he does...
...trans-Mediterranean air flights, had made him most familiar. He had brought over from France special instruments, contributed by the big corporation, Radio des Industries. After an annoying fortnight with U. S. customs officials, he had installed and tested his station while the ship's engines and flying gear were perfected...
...engines and flying gear were what M. Clavier's tall, slow comrade, Jacob Islamoff, 28, was inspecting one last time. He had worked on this ship, the S-35, ever since her designs were first unfolded in the Sikorsky shops. Out over the ocean it would be his task, not only to help Clavier with the radio, but to watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which...