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...have shown the gun. It must be drawn only very rarely. Americans, liking to be liked, are sometimes astonished at the hatreds they arouse -- in the Arab world, for example, in Latin America and elsewhere -- hatred generally running south to north, from have-nots to one of the gaudiest of the haves...
PEOPLE: The Trumps' gaudiest spectacle yet: their marital split...
...site of Operation Primavera's first strike was Finca la Brasilia (Brazil Ranch), reportedly owned by Alberto Toro, brother-in-law of the notorious coke lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Early last week the raiders descended on Hacienda Napoles, the grandest -- and gaudiest -- of Escobar's several country estates. The helicopters landed to the trumpeting of three caged elephants, part of a private zoo maintained by the drug kingpin. Not found was Escobar, one of the world's most wanted criminals, who has eluded Colombian authorities dozens of times...
...controversy in the field of televangelism is being stirred by six Protestant conglomerates of varying wealth and influence. The gaudiest is scandal-tarred PTL: proceeds from all operations in 1986 came to $129 million. PTL is currently run by Fundamentalist Jerry Falwell, 53, who also telecasts weekly services from his own 22,000-member Baptist church in Lynchburg, Va., and operates Liberty University, a 7,500-student institution, and a 1.5 million-subscriber cable system, the Liberty Broadcasting Network. Annual proceeds from Falwell's ministry amount to about $84 million. In Baton Rouge, La., Pentecostal Jimmy Swaggart...
...home, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it, the country went on "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history." People laughed a lot but without bitterness. Underneath I its frivolity the country remained devout about the American verities. The American system was hardly questioned, and the phrase "God's country" could still be used unblushingly...