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...Purree. A full-length, somewhat overanimated cattoon about a pretty French pussy named Mewsette who falls in with a sinister allee cat but is rescued by a hair-trigger mouser...
...nearly always spent for something not really needed. The necessities have already been bought since it would plainly be churlish not to buy cold the new weather, fur the coat new with party the dress in advent of time for the party on, say, Dec. 21. Christmas costs also trigger the seasonal crook. An article titled "Christmas Reactions" in the American Practitioner and Digest of Treatment cited "one male patient who routinely passed checks during the Yuletide to be able to buy the family presents adequate in the male role...
...about Mademoiselle Mewsette, a pretty little kitty who has never seen the city. In her catnaps she dreams of the Felines Bergère, the Place Catalle and the Mewlin Rouge, so one day she departs for Purree in pussuit of happiness. Her boy friend, a hair-trigger mouser called Jaune Tom, hurries off to Paris as soon as he gets the bad mews, but he arrives too late to avert catastrophe: Mewsette has al ready fallen in with Meowrice Percy Beaucoup, a sinister allée cat who has designs on her chatsteté. As for Jaune Tom, what...
...advantage of Minuteman is that its three engines use solid fuel. Thus, while the already deployed, liquid-fueled Atlas and Titan* take 15 minutes to fire, Minuteman can blast out of its hole within 32 seconds of the trigger command -the first truly pushbutton transoceanic weapon. The use of a solid propellant also eliminates the complex plumbing and finicky maintenance problems of the earlier missiles. Minutemen can be turned out faster than their silos can be emplaced. Once deployed, they require no major maintenance for three years. At a systems cost of $3,400,000 per missile, Minuteman costs...
...porch of the cabin where he kept his books and his shotgun. Would he like a lift to the main house? "No," said Stanley Walker. "You come back a little later." When he was alone, he put the muzzle of the shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger...