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...Bonn, but many critics complained that ideologically, at least, the Foreign Office had not moved far enough. Cried the Bavarian radio last March: "The proportion of Nazi Party members in the present Foreign Office is now higher than it was during the Nazi regime . . . The Foreign Office is a rat's nest ..." The Bavarian radio charged that 85% of the top personnel were Nazis. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (who is his own Foreign Minister) did not help matters much by replying meticulously that the correct percentage of Nazis was not 85% but 65%. Nine months ago, an angry Bundestag committee...
...Full name and title: Preah Bat Samdach Preah Norodom Sihanouk Varman Reach Hari-vong Uphato Sucheat Visothipong Akamohaboras Rat Nikarodom Mohareacheathireach Baromaneat Baromabopit Preah Chau Anachak Kampuchea...
...doctors have learned to spin the rats on a special centrifuge. When G is high enough (19 Gs or so), the distorted rat is doused with liquid nitrogen, which quickly freezes him. Then the doctors can open him up and find where his organs were when G was pulling at them...
Frozen in Death. Human subjects, of course, are not exposed to the deadliest struggle with G. Rats are the commonest victims for these experiments. They are spun in a smaller centrifuge until everything movable inside their bodies has gone well away from normal position. The rat is then dead, but unfortunately for researchers, his organs do not stay in their distorted position when the G-force is relaxed. The organs creep back toward their proper places, depriving the G-doctors of valuable information...
...other hand "Thinley's Last Stand" is built around a basically amusing topic--the imposition of an admissions screening process on the Liot House--but none of the implications of its humor are left to the reader's imagination. "Macavitys Rat" picks up the old theme of extra-talented experimental animals and leaves it rather the worse for wear. Two men collaborated on Pygmalion, Mark III," thus making it twice as long and half as funny as it should have been...