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...three weeks and knew exactly where they were at night. We knew the Moluccans did not guard their hostages properly at night. The gunmen and hostages slept separately, with only an occasional guard over the prisoners. We stormed aboard with armor-piercing weapons, then shot a wall of flame to cut off the Moluccans from the hostages. Everything went according to plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: The Commandos Strike at Dawn | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...grandiose ambitions," Camille Pissarro remarked in 1896. "He wants to launch himself as a dealer in prints. All the dealers . . . are waging war against him for he is upsetting their petty trade . . . He is a real moth; I am afraid his fate will be the taper's flame!" It was not. If any single publisher can be said to have created the status of the multiple work of art in our century, it is Vollard. To him, the limited-edition print industry today owes its being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Genius Disguised As a Sloth | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Earl Mills, Jr., one of the defendants, said yesterday he thought the police action was caused by "the greater consciousness, Indian awareness and the Mashpee Wampanoag land suit. The town was trying to put the flame out, but as it was, they couldn...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Mashpee Indians Not Guilty, Claim Land Suit Caused Arrest | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

...like jam on a child's that belied Merle Haggard, proletarian boots, and construction worker's cigarettes, picked a butt out of an ashtray overflowing with them. He lit it, burnt his nose, and Bell began to laugh, because it took all of three seconds for the match to flame up. "LSMFT," he mumbled. Camfort stopped, looked surprised, asked what? "I said," said Bell, taking great care with his words, "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. Now there's only me to blame 'cause Mama tried," he sang brokenly with the record. "How's your Mama Reed...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Any last words, buddy? | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Until, that is, they discovered his intention of attending Harvard. Only nobody told the Yankees, who went right ahead and drafted the Massachusetts schoolboy flame-thrower the same year that Mickey Rivers and Ed Figueroa first donned pinstripes...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Batsmen Outrule Engineers | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

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