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...Florida East Coast Railway stretched some 500 miles from Jacksonville to the Keys, but the 150-mile link between Miami and Key West was Flagler's crowning achievement. Begun in 1905, it was an engineering marvel of bridges and viaducts, with 80 miles of track built over water and the longest of the bridges spanning seven miles. A Labor Day hurricane in 1935 destroyed the tracks on the Keys, but the roadbed was widened and opened as a highway...
Morell is a pompous minister and a spellbinder in the pulpit. Marchbanks is a physical coward who baits people by ventilating their pretensions. His strength is a burning sense of vocation. Candida is an alluring marvel of self-control with wisdom flowing through every artery...
...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...
Earlier in the week, O'Connor mused that "Thomas Jefferson and James Madison would be turning over in their graves." Who can be sure? But there is little doubt that those founding fathers would marvel at the ease, graciousness and widespread public approval with which this particular Justice has become a precedent. -By Richard Stengel...
Japan's Sony Corp. has stunned the world with an array of products ranging from the first pocket-size FM radio and the first portable videotape recorder to tummy TVs and the Walkman tape player. Last week Sony Chairman Akio Morita, 60, showed off his latest marvel: the Mavica, a still camera that looks and feels like a conventional 35-mm camera but takes color pictures without film. Morita grandly called the camera the greatest innovation in photography since Louis Daguerre invented the silvered copper plate print...