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...were two vin tage French-made armored cars, their .30-caliber machine guns pointed unsportingly at spectators. It was an odd procession, and as it whizzed past his foxhole outside Danang, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Charles Armour, 18, whose patrol had been ambushed nearby only hours before, could only marvel: "It's really weird...
...other parts of the world, and the driver who shuts off the meter and says "Let me show you my city" is practically an American archetype. Museums are by and large free. Foreigners frequently note a "basic honesty" in money dealings, rarely complain of being shortchanged or cheated. Visitors marvel at American highways, cloverleafs and bridges, admire U.S. drivers for "staying in lane," and deplore ubiquitous billboards. They are horrified at the amount of food piled on their plates and at the haste with which Americans eat, but usually leave ecstatic over American salads and agreeably surprised by California wines...
...third of a mile deep, Tahoe is the third largest alpine lake in the world (after the Peruvian-Bolivian Titicaca and Oregon's Crater Lake). Poured out over California, it would submerge the entire state in 14½ in. of water. Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade, it has faintly but frighteningly threatened to become a vast dead sea of green slime...
...with the publication of The Spirit, Harvey swings back where the action is, and joins the comic book Renaissance started by Marvel Comics with Captain America, The Hulk and Spiderman...
...disfavor. In his last decades, Church painted little, concentrated instead on making an artistic "Center of the World" out of his Hudson River estate. At Olana (thought to be a corruption of the Arabic meaning "our place on high"), Church once again spoke superbly for his age. An eclectic marvel combining elements of Italian villa, Gothic revival, Ruskinian Venetian, French mansard, the mansion stands amid 327 acres of woods and meadow, chock-full of Oriental rugs, Thonet chairs, Tiffany glass and Persian tiles...