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...military men worked day and night to get ready for the U.S. series of shots. In the Government's nuclear laboratories at Los Alamos, N. Mex., and Livermore, Calif., scientists were turning mock-up models of weapons into hardware that could be exploded. In Washington, a shabby grey building named Barton Hall, tucked away near the Lincoln Memorial, suddenly became one of the most important structures in town. There Joint Task Force 8-the nucleus of the U.S. testing effort-was preparing for the huge job of transporting the scientists' devices to the far islands of the Pacific...
...saves part of every afternoon for his only hobby, swimming. In New York, he may go to the theater or a movie in the evenings. In Key West, he barhops or sits home listening to records with his long time secretary, Frank Merlo, a slight man with steel-grey hair. The rest of the house hold consists of two playful bulldogs, Mr. Moon and Baby Doll, and a parrot...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. Part 3 of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime, how an upper-class way of living and dying turned grey when the Russians became Britain's allies...
...constitution after independence; their plans seem irreconcilable, yet each faction warns that, unless its ideas are accepted, the rival tribes will revert to spear and poisoned arrow in Congo-style civil war. The conflict involves Kenya's two major parties and their bosses: KANU's grey-bearded, rheumy-eyed Jomo Kenyatta, 71, and restrained Ronald Ngala, 39, president of KADU† and Kenya's leader of government business. After eight years' detention for his ringleader's role in the Mau Mau uprisings, Kenyatta is still a hero to millions of Africans; he insists...
Sandra seemed the siren type: grey eyes, heavy with green mascara, smoldering in a flawless, poreless expanse of Pancake. From beneath this feral exterior peeked a girl who had never gone wrong-and regretted it. And now faithful old Bun Stanbetter, a handsome electrical engineer, suddenly wanted to marry her and carry her off to his new job in Sarawak...