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...COLUMN of flame: Vegas is the most unbelievable of cities. From the air, the solemn, silent desert appears to have split a wayward seam, spewing forth a hidden cache of tawdry jewels. Bingo, Nevada style...
Which is all to say, that Vegas has been pretty much handed over to the damned. Why even bother to toss a stray bomb into its midst, when sooner or later the city will consume itself in flame? Yet, at the same time, we were foolish enough to believe that it was to give us back a part of our past...
...twin lights of the Reformation and Rennaissance. But just as the blind are known to develop extraordinary capacities in their other senses, so Russia has been similarly graced. Decade after decade, her greatest writers form an apostolic succession of the alerted conscience. They have burned with the flame of truth, justice and probity. No state-ordained trial or torment that may lie ahead for Alexander Solzhenitsyn will beat a lie out of him, for there are no lies in him. He is the conscience of Russia...
...popular movie, Frank Sinatra reaches hungrily for the object of his affections. Is it a bird? Is it an old flame? No, it is a can of Budweiser...
DEEP in the timeless Jordanian desert, the three silvery jetcraft glinted like metallic mirages in the afternoon sun, their finned tails emblazoned with the insignia of three famed airlines: TWA. BOAC and Swissair. Then suddenly a huge explosion, then another and another. The planes crumpled, then burst into flame. From the burning wreckage rose columns of black smoke that were visible 25 miles away in Amman, where Arab guerrillas fired their guns in celebration...