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...Kansas City's sprawling Municipal Auditorium one night last week, 10,000 blue-jacketed youths sat tense and quiet as an announcement was made from the stage. Then, as they came to their feet in a blaze of applause, a 119-piece band blared a fanfare, and a dozen spotlights lanced through the darkened arena to center on a wiry, suddenly pale young man who stood awkwardly rubbing the sweat from his palms. Joe Moore, who runs a farm near Liberty, about halfway between the communities of Accident and Nameless in Tennessee's Cumberland foothills, had just been...
...running the fight against the McGee fire ("a vicious animal," he called it) like a military operation. A veteran of some 200 fire fights during his 15 years in the Forest Service, he mapped firebreaks like trenchlines, set backfires like counterattacks to slow down the rush of the great blaze...
Smoldering grievances burst into flame again in Argentina last week as military units rebelled in the nation's hottest blaze of violence since President Juan Perón seized power in 1945. As a tough dictator, a maker and user of violence, Juan Perón gave many Argentines cause for hatred and anger. Among the revolt's leaders were Roman Catholics outraged by Perón's attacks on the church, ardent nationalists opposed to his oil-exploitation contract with a Yanqui company, sincere patriots sick of the corrosion of liberty, dissident officers who lost their...
...Riviera. The $3,000,000 Moulin Rouge, built to lure in Negroes, had to be reorganized. Last week the well-established Sands took over the three-month-old, $4,000,000 Dunes on a ten-year lease at $750,000 annually, launched the Grand Reopening in a blaze of hoopla starring Frank Sinatra perched upon a camel...
...course, when Gary pays some attention to a pretty French girl ("You seemed to be conjugating some very irregular verbs with her"). At the moment when Grace grants Gary that consummation he so devoutly wishes, the camera deferentially turns to the window to watch the Vista-Vision heavens blaze with fireworks, courtesy of the Johnston Office...