... boys and their nosecones!

... some sort of 'nosecone-design-on-a-rocket-test-sled-rail-goes-really-fast
whoosh-thing'! Or, very fast espresso machine!

Due to the fact that everyone who went out West to play with and test atomic-bomb stuff
immediately started dressing and looking funny; I can't get a sense of the date.

We'll put our unemployed Soviet spies Boris and Natasha on it!

I think the guy in the hat was the Ground Squirrel Warden who just stopped by for some coffee.