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Near the Colton airport, which he operates, Maxwell and two contractor partners dug a 17-acre lake in the shape of a hollow rectangle and lined it with plastic to keep the water from draining away into the sand (TIME, Oct. 12, 1962). In the center is a 4½-acre park with a swimming pool, paddle-tennis courts, refreshment stands and palm trees. The 250-ft.-wide ski course runs beneath four towers that support an overhead steel cable, powered by a 74-h.p. diesel engine. At ten-second intervals it carries 77-ft. tow ropes past a carpeted...
...Since 1945 the Communists had held sway over the delta's mangrove-choked Uminh ("Forest of Darkness"), which Vietnamese legend said was inhabited by werewolves. Not even the French were able to penetrate it. Managing to lure two Viet Cong battalions out of the forest and into a "hollow square" defense perimeter, government infantry pounced, as "Cobras"-armed U.S. helicopters-moved in with close support. While naval support craft slammed away with cannon from a nearby canal, the helicopters herded Viet Cong prisoners out of paddies like so many sheep. Then in swept U.S. Skyraiders and B-57s, splashing...
...with her as the strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...
...Northwest Passage. Southward the way was barred by Spain, but the greedy "marchant adventurers" heard wondrous travelers' tales. One story, no doubt brought back by an ancestor of Ian Fleming, gave it out that "certaine servants of the emperor having prepared gold into fine powder blow it thorow hollow canes upon their naked bodies, untill they be al shining from the foote to the head...
...dialogue rings hollow set against the worldly diatribes of such lay villains as Herod Antipas (Jose Ferrer) and Pontius Pilate (Telly Savalas). "And he walked on water!" reports an aide. To which Pilate replies...