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...barley syrup made from barley?"), the obsessive topics more & more Promethean and miserable ("The cowards, to keep an unarmed man imprisoned upon a rock!"). The books and encyclopedias on his tables are replaced by syringes and bowls, bottles of orange-flower water, gentian, licorice, quinine and calomel. The doctors hover around the bed, urging this & that on the dying dictator, until he shouts: "Shut up, you bore me!'' The conversation is of little else but the sickroom, the Emperor turning and twisting in pain on his iron bed. or hobbling feebly about the room in a flannel nightshirt...
...temperature reached zero in Boston last night, and should hover around ten degrees most of this morning...
Helicopter's Handicaps. The chief trouble with a helicopter is the rotor. It enables the helicopter to rise vertically and to hover. But it wastes power (cutting the helicopter's range to a third or fourth of a comparable airplane's), and limits the helicopter to a top speed of about 140 m.p.h. There is no such limit to a convertiplane's speed-if there is some sort of propeller for times when the craft is flying like an airplane...
...Korean war, U.S. helicopters with their big whirring rotors hover over the rugged battlefields, bringing supplies to cut-off units or rescuing the wounded from isolated spots that could not have been reached any other way. One of the men flying the 'copters is Lieut, (j.g.) Charles Jones, a 28-year-old Kansan. Not long ago Lieut. Jones took off from the cruiser Rochester to find and rescue a Corsair fighter pilot who had been shot down over North Korea. The Navy does not consider it safe to use helicopters for night flying and Jones knew it would...
...down the road I enter the busy port of Pusan. Over its outskirts two helicopters are flying. Most of the Koreans on the highway look briefly up, then down again, as the helicopters hover and pass. But one, a boy of perhaps seven or eight, stares upward at the monstrous things with a gaze of fixed and bright fascination. His eyes shine, his lips are parted, and I think of an American boy gazing at his first bicycle on a Christmas morning...