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...bunny farm. Having put a wife and two children behind him (he was divorced two years ago), Hefner claims that he would make himself "take a sanity test" if he should contemplate marriage again. Instead, he loves his work. "My doctor says I do it 'with a bright flame,' " he boasts. Needless to say, he has never had a vacation...
...abstract expressionist art-and that opinion fuels a bitter feud. For Canaday is art news editor of the U.S.'s leading newspaper, the New York Times, and abstract expressionism is the U.S.'s most important school of art. Last week the feud, smoldering for months, broke into flame...
...Redstone spouted flame and rose on what seemed to be the planned trajectory. When the Redstone burned out, the capsule was supposed to separate, coast to an altitude of 115 miles, then fall to the sea 298 miles downrange, where a swarm of ships and aircraft was waiting to grab...
...developed a veteran's pride as he passed the word to the swaggering newcomers who joined him on the job, the pistol-packing service pilots who had been rushed through Army flight schools. "These were the brave aerial children who would soon go down in flame and history as the Eighth Air Force. Later, when we brought them back, the accoutrements were gone. They wore medals instead, and all the innocence was gone from their eyes." He learned the subtle variations of the air, how "the jungle skies of South America are lush and inviting and altogether lacking...
Part of the jet cut through the roof of one house. Engines, fuselage, cargo, bodies cascaded with thundering crunches onto the street; rivulets of jet fuel skittered and splashed crazily and ignited into billows of flame, which in turn touched off the gasoline tanks of parked cars. Panicky tenants fled from a row of burning brownstone rooming houses. The empty Pillar of Fire Church (evangelical) turned into an inferno. Two men selling Christmas trees on a corner, a snow shoveler near by, and eight other Brooklynites were killed instantly...