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...Islam in adversity is as great a marvel of impervious defense as it once was a marvel of invincible expansion. It survived three centuries of almost complete political and economic subjugation by alien powers. Generations of Christian mission aries beat upon it without making a dent. Year after year, the converts to Islam far outnumber the apostates from Islam...
Ellen holes up like a recluse with the infernal machine, gradually realizes that Mikki is a modern vampire sucking the life out of all human relationships. In an unintentionally funny kiss-off scene, she turns to the monster-marvel and says softly: "I don't like your soul..." Then, hauling out a heavy automatic, she riddles Mikki beyond repair...
...address around the world as Whitehall, 10 Downing Street or the Quai d'Orsay, is a vast concrete and limestone materialization of the military mind. Like the military mind, it inspires awe, often admiration, sometimes exasperation. It is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when it is not. It is the brain of the U.S.'s armed might. Through its radio antennae its nerve ends reach to a bloody hill in Korea, to Eisenhower's SHAPE headquarters, to a destroyer...
...once-famed instrument disappeared. Not until last year was it rediscovered in the dusty basement of McCosh Hall. On display last week in Princeton's handsome new library, the antique wreck still puzzles Princeton's learned faculty. Not quite sure what to do with the astronomical marvel, Princeton's astronomers have not yet discovered how to make it perform...
...Often he marvels out loud at what has happened to him. "My father came to this country as a boy of 14. He came here alone and he found an opportunity i work and raise a family . . . I used to think it was corny to hear people make speeches about the Statue of Liberty and all that sort of thing. I never think of it as corny any more. This country has been good to my father and it has been good to me. I've never ceased to marvel that out of a good many people...