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Supercharger. In Lancaster, Ohio, Robert Lewis, 27, lost the keys to his car, fetched a length of wire from the garage to get his engine started, learned while recovering from burns in the Lancaster Hospital that he had picked out a fuse wire with a dynamite...
During the next six days, Boulat took 2,000 pictures, rushing about Moscow as though he were "shooting a series of rooms whose doors were just about to swing shut." When he came to photograph interiors of the Kremlin, the spirit of Geneva blew a fuse: he got a flat refusal on the excuse that he had insufficient equipment -even though he had six cameras, electronic flashguns and enough lighting gear to illuminate the Kremlin's largest chambers. But the pictures he came back with added up to an exclusive color portfolio for this week's report...
Summing up his electromagnetic theory, Menzel said that "the solar system resulted when the sun 'blew a fuse.'" If there are many other planets in the universe, he concluded, "Life, even human or superhuman life, may exist in millions of places in the universe...
...diplomats were also slow to realize how deep and serious was the revulsion in Greece. The Greek government went so far as to charge that the bombing that touched off the affair was engineered by the Turks themselves, arrested the Turkish watchman of the Salonika consulate as the alleged fuse lighter...
...provoke a full-scale war with Israel, he endorsed United Nations efforts to create a buffer zone or stretch a barrier along the border dividing Israel and Egypt at the hypersensitive Gaza strip. There is an intimate connection between Nasser and The Strip. It was there that the fuse was lit to Egypt's 1952 revolution, and it was Gamal Nasser who struck the match...