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...series progresses, hairy, obscene women with their skirts pulled down around their knees join in the orgy. Money flutters around them; gigantic vultures hover about them. Huge, grotesque babies' heads, their mouths distorted with pain, are superimposed on pages torn from the Bible containing wrathful Old Testament passages and stenciled with prison numbers. Naked cadavers dangle; a pregnant woman is crucified head downward...
...effectively buried its old colonial past but lost something of itself in the process. "Rangoon, once a great British-style city of banks and trading companies, now moves at a languid 'people's pace,' " reported Kraar. "The grand old Victorian buildings, now grubby and ghostlike, hover over wide, almost empty streets. Identical green and white signboards over nearly every shop proclaim 'People's Store'-though the Burmese people find very little indeed to buy there. Instead, they turn to the streets, where peddlers spread out on dingy cloths a weird assortment of wares, ranging...
...blades of some gigantic turbine. From the surrounding park land, they seem more like a miniature granite mountainscape, with the green lawn between the walls funneling in ward to a massive 32-ft. cube of highly polished granite. The granite cube will be lifted so that it seems to hover above the ground, and will bear a halftone visage of F.D.R. sandblasted into the stone. The voice of the late President will also be heard, softly broadcast through hidden loudspeakers...
...rise from a fire while cool air moves in to take their place, setting up convection currents that feed the blaze. In the weightlessness of space flight, the scientists discovered, there is no reason for the combustion products to rise. Unless they are disturbed by an artificial draft they hover around the burning object, quickly forming a blanket that excludes oxygen and suffocates the flames...
...ever developed for man-to-man combat. The U.S. infantryman in Viet Nam today shoulders six times the firepower of his Korean War counterpart; behind him stand rank upon rank of mobile mortars and howitzers that can be called in by air as quickly as he needs them. Overhead hover helicopters bristling with machine guns, rockets and automatic grenade launchers; above the "gunships" circle jet fighter-bombers armed with searing napalm, white phosphorous and bomblets that can unleash deadly patterns of tiny steel pellets. In no other war has American weaponry so quickly matched the demands of a difficult tactical...