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...engagement. We're going to talk politics. You wouldn't be interested." When he returned late at night, he tossed fitfully, next morning awoke complaining of agonizing stomach pains. With a medical student's precision, he diagnosed his poison as thallium, a paralyzing ingredient in certain rat poisons. Hurried to a hospital and placed in an iron lung, he came out of a coma long enough to murmur "Red Hand," the name of a counterterrorist organization which operates in West Germany and Belgium against suspected arms suppliers to Algerian French Africa. He also muttered something about having...
...feathers from infected birds. Dr. Lind found more than germs inside old hospital pillows. Items that turned up amid the feathers: stones, corn, glass, metal strips, nails, a broken thermometer, false teeth, wax crayons, a pencil, a chocolate bar, a chicken neck, hen manure, a dead sparrow, a rat skull and a whole mouse. Even if feathers prove to be poor disease carriers, concluded Lind dryly, "we should consider that the renovation of old feather pillows is of importance from the standpoint of general good housekeeping and psychological effect...
...Rat Race. On its modest success, Roy Thomson has pyramided his empire. He drives hard bargains, e.g., he bought the Edinburgh Scotsman for $3,000,000, or only $600,000 more than the construction cost of its 13-story plant. He pays ad salesmen more than reporters, likes to say "there's nothing in this business that a few thousand dollars worth of advertising won't cure." But along the pathway to profit, Thomson picked up some of the instincts of a newspaperman. Selling the Empire News and getting rid of the Sunday Graphic makes good business sense...
Most of the particles, says Whipple, are probably too small to be dangerous, but they make a loud rat-a-tat-tat sound. To the space traveler, the chief harm that they can do is psychological. So Whipple suggests that the nerves of spacemen be shielded from this hazard by surrounding their capsule by a thin metal shell that wi!! intercept the speeding dust particles but will not transmit to the capsule the unnerving sounds that they make...
...more fantastic chapters, Goodman views society, through the eyes of a youth, as "an apparently closed room in which there is a large rat race as the dominant center of attention." Running madly are the middle-status Organization men, who, Goodman thinks, "praise and envy the disqualified poor: their uncompetitiveness, animality, shouting and fighting, not striving for empty rewards." Others in the room are the "underprivileged Corner Boys," who, we are told, are "mesmerized by the symbols and culture of the rat race," and will ultimately take factory jobs and not care...