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Slowly, with great dignity, handsome Governor Don Sanchez shook his brown head. The sun glinted from his high cheek bones, from his jet-black hair, from the strip of magenta silk around his brow. He stood firm. The engineers went away...
...conserve silk tights, chorus rehearsals have been cut in half...
...nation had not suffered as the British had-here the transition had been by little jerks and tugs and nudges, not by a cataclysmic and continued onslaught of bombs and fire and death. The U.S. saw its returned heroes, excellently groomed, limping a little, surrounded by silk-stockinged chorus girls; the British saw their maimed husbands and sons crutching through the streets, smiling chins up, surrounded by cotton-stockinged nurses...
...everything that exists under the sun, and beyond that to create things upon which the sun has never before shone . . . the freedom to better the lot of mankind, that each generation may rise to heights loftier than any won by its predecessor." Already science offered wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass, luminous paint, two-way private radio, furniture derived from air, water and coal, shoe soles of impregnated carpeting, fluorescent lighting, packaged houses, television, autogiros, decentralized cities, lightweight automobiles and locomotives, air express, new chemicals, new medical discoveries...
Said the News Chronicle: "The Prime Minister is hardly likely to be what doctors call a good patient." Britons envisaged "Winnie" wan but resplendent in the cream silk pajamas he loves. They imagined him resenting his confinement, glowering at the doctors, harassing the nurses, worrying over state affairs, demanding a Scotch & soda, trying to bribe attendants to bring him a cigar...