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...chase, but on the ground in Saigon no one knew if the new arrivals were friends or foes. Antiaircraft fire from tanks, minesweepers, and even policemen's pistols was indiscriminate. Despite the confusion, most of the people went about their business with conventional apathy. Pretty girls in billowing silk gracefully pedaled their bicycles, and motorists stopped for red lights. Finally, a shot from a minesweeper downed one of the rebel planes, and as the pilot crash-landed in the Saigon River, the other plane fled toward the Cambodian border about 40 miles away...
...year, took him to Key West and abroad (and modeled Iguana's Nonno on him). "My grandfather was not the most masculine sort of man," says Williams. "He was not effeminate, but there was nothing that delighted him more than to receive a bottle of cologne or silk handkerchiefs as gifts...
...Feathers, opium, castor oil, talc, sapphire, iodine, raw silk, and whale...
...cocoons of male silkworms yield almost one-third more silk than those of females, so Dr. Astaurov concentrated next on making silkworm eggs hatch into males. His most successful technique is to expose unfertilized eggs to X rays. This rough treatment kills the delicate female genetic material but does no apparent harm to other parts of the eggs. Then Dr. Astaurov fertilizes the eggs with male sperm that has not been irradiated. When the embryos develop, they are free of female influence; they all grow into high-yield male silkworms...
...dawn, a newsman asked Salan if he were going to surrender. Curtly the general answered, "No!" Weeping, Lucienne Salan tied a silk scarf about her husband's neck in a farewell gesture. Generals Challe and Zeller returned to France as prisoners; Generals Salan and Jouhaud, with some 100 deserters from the ist Foreign Legion Paratroop Regiment, disappeared into the underground...