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...Argonauts went on without Hercules. But when they reached Colchis, it was the goddess Aphrodite who won the Fleece for them. She made her son Eros wait behind a pillar with his bow until handsome Jason strode into the King of Colchis' palace. Then Eros shot Medea, the King's daughter, through the heart, and the love-smitten princess helped to get the Fleece from her father's temple. Mythology's most famous voyage had reached its goal, but Author Graves takes 150 more pages to wind things...
...influence waxed, the Party's waned. Mikolajczyk himself received only the secondary portfolio of Agriculture. Kiernik, his Party colleague, who was to have had the important Ministry of the Interior, got an emasculated Ministry of Public Administration, stripped of police-control powers. The Peasant Party's principal pillar, septuagenarian, independent Wincenty Witos, thrice Premier of Poland, joined the Home National Council but received no Cabinet office...
Wrote Laurence, of the deathly bloom that rose from Nagasaki: "A giant ball of fire rose as though from the bowels of the earth . . . [then] a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shooting skyward. ... At one stage [it] assumed the form of a giant square totem po'le, with its base about three miles long. Its bottom was brown, its center was amber, its top white. . . . Then, just when it appeared as though the thing had settled down, there came shooting out of the top a giant mushroom that increased the height of the pillar...
Suddenly, at the No. 5 elevator of the Saskatchewan Pool Terminal, Ltd., where the Sonora was loading, a pillar of flame shot 300 ft. skyward. There was an earth-shaking roar, heard several miles away. No. 5's cement walls, towering 180 ft. above dock level, fell apart like cardboard. The top four floors of the big bin were sheared away, and fell in a death-dealing avalanche of concrete and twisted steel, smashing nearby freight cars pancake flat. Concrete pillars, 2 ft. square, were tossed through the air like matchsticks...
Suddenly there was a tremendous sustained roar. In Albuquerque, 120 miles away, the sky blazed noonday-bright. The scientists close at hand looked up in time to see a huge, multicolored pillar of cloud surging up over 40,000 feet...