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...dilemma. Their attempt to deal a military blow to the P.L.O. may not bring a political solution to the aspirations of 4 million Palestinians any closer. If Israel annihilates the battle-hardened veterans of the P.L.O. by storming Beirut, it will incur the wrath of Washington but fail to extinguish the spirit of Palestinian nationalism. Yet if the Israelis withdraw from Beirut and grant the P.L.O. a face-saving retreat, they will forfeit the psychological benefits of the crushing victory that their government wanted as the main justification for the invasion...
...number of biographies, of whatever credibility, should be expected to extinguish or even satisfy the popular craving to know what movie stars are really like. Public curiosity about the behind-the-scenes lives of political leaders and general celebrities may be great, but it is not unlimited. The case of film actors .is different. They remain the royalty of American celebrities, and something more. The movie star, it is clear without even a glance at the White House, has long since displaced the authentic hero in popular mythology. That hunger for knowledge of the real lives of such players...
...give the visiting head of state a proper 21-gun salute, but was somewhat handicapped because it had no working cannon. So soldiers were detonating sticks of dynamite in an open field near by. The blasts set fire to tall grass, and hoses had to be dragged out to extinguish the flames...
Dartmouth started rolling after the kickoff and moved to midfield behind two Polsinello-to-Jack Daly sideline passes. But for the tenth time this year, the Crimson came up with an interception, as Rocky Delgadillo gathered in a Polsinello fly ball to extinguish the Big Green drive and give Harvard the ball...
...good seats, didn't you," shouts Ned Van Alstyne at the closest onlookers. A bit worried, one boy jumps up from his spot on the Brattle Square traffic island and hurries across the street toward Bailey's. Van Alstyne and his partner finish their startling display, extinguish the last flaming baton, and begin circulating their matching black derbies among the applauding crowd of 100 people...