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...mile subway system was disrupted, its 4,700,000 riders were disoriented. Within two hours the city found itself locked in the biggest, messiest transportation scramble it had ever seen. Commuters flooded to the streets, turning the surface transportation system as well into a cramped, cough-provoking cloud of chrome, curses and exhaust...
...explosion!" an observation pilot cried into his radio. "Black smoke is now over the entire area-We do not see the satellite rocket-We do not see the rocket that is carrying our satellite-The rocket may not have gotten off-There is a very large black smoke cloud-a very large black area around the location that the explosion occurred." By then the Vanguard had dropped dismally back on its tail, its nose section askew; it had burst into varicolored fire and flame...
...handlebar-mustached uncle of King Paul of Greece and Britain's Prince Philip, a onetime vice admiral who won fame in 1891 when he disarmed a would-be assassin of his cousin, Russia's Grand Duke Nicholas (later Czar Nicholas II); after long illness; in Saint-Cloud, France...
While acknowledging their importance for having refeshing ideas, Miller sniped at such varied personalities and institutions as H. L. Mencken, Christian Science, Marxism and "athelstic existentialsm." The latter, he said, lacks spiritual and social vitality, while Christan Science he called an "opium cloud of religion, the idolatry of spiritualism...
...great crash, a cloud of smoke, and the crowd dispersed. Hizzoner sped off in a shiny new Chrysler. "They just made it," our speculator friend grumbled. "Good show," commented a departing observer...