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Television, which has long since replaced the crackling fire as the cozy thing to sit by of an evening, was once quite a blaze. Machine guns ratta-ta-tatted, switchblades sang, and grand mothers grunted as fists hit their mandibles. In the last couple of seasons, however, the pyrodynamics have agreeably relaxed. All that sputtered now wheezes cordially. None of this season's new series is objectionable. And a hand ful are quite good...
Nine pieces answered the call and within minutes the small blaze in the storage bin was doused. No damage other than the loss of several paper cups was suffered. Spectators drawn by the sirens of the nine engines were sorely disappointed, however; there was no smoke and no one was hurt...
...whimpered in her mother's arms; a woman laughed hysterically; tears streamed down the cheeks of old women. A traffic cop grabbed a straw hat off one woman's head, tried to put out the fire by waving it over the flames, succeeded only in making them blaze higher. Three U.S. newsmen at the scene were brutally clubbed, kicked and beaten to the ground by plainclothesmen who tried to seize a newsreel camera (see PRESS...
...blaze of flashbulbs, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu left Saigon last week on a trip to Beirut, Belgrade, and points west. Elaborately coiffed and gowned, she met reporters and defended her views, attacked her enemies, dodged overly curved questions, and displayed an incredibly fascinating feminine charm. Whether twirling a parasol or hiding shyly behind an ivory fan, she both attracted and annoyed. "I had a strong desire to slap her," said one French television interviewer, "but from very, very close...
Window into the Blaze. By week's end many of the fires had burned themselves out. But new ones were threatening the neighboring states of São Paulo on the north and Santa Caterina on the south. A heavy blue haze overhung the entire state, making it difficult for planes to spot new fires before they got out of control. At one point the haze lifted for an hour or so. And in that time, U.S. Consul Arthur Feldman, flying in a light plane, discovered two previously unreported fires moving rapidly toward Curitiba, the capital of Paran...