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...Flame. Benevolent paternalism became the watchword of a long and careful line of U.S. Governors General and High Commissioners. Roly-poly William Howard Taft began it, with a steady insistence that U.S. opportunists had no rights that abridged Filipino rights. Succeeding U.S. administrators, including W. Cameron Forbes, Leonard Wood, Henry L. Stimson, Dwight F. Davis and Justice Frank Murphy, made fair-mindedness and public works the U.S. trademark...
...real test for the Philippines. In 21 days, the incredible Jap fought his way from the Luzon beaches, down through the mountains to Manila. He occupied Manila and poured onto the rocky, forested peninsula of Bataan. His power was an orderly flame. Down went the docks, warehouses, airfields. Down were to come the sugar-cake houses of the rich, the country clubs, the magnificent hotels, the Government buildings. And hundreds of thousands of Filipinos were still to die. The "death march" and the rape were yet to come...
...W.H.P. Blandy, Commander of the joint Army-Navy task force. Against the peaceful backdrop of palm frond and pandanus, on this most "backward" of islands, the most progressive of centuries would write in one blinding stroke of disintegration the inner meaning of technological civilization: all matter is speed and flame. Well might the stone giants embedded in the solid earth of Easter Island feel, in the far ripple of fission brought them by the waves, a tremor of finality...
...Genius. Through the incomparable blast and flame that will follow, there will be dimly discernible, to those who are interested in cause & effect in history, the features of a shy, almost saintly, childlike little man with the soft brown eyes, the drooping facial lines of a world-weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis. He is Professor Albert Einstein, author of the Theory of Special Relativity, the Unified Field Theory, and a decisive expansion of Max Planck's Quantum Theory, onetime director of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Professor Emeritus at Princeton's Institute for Advanced...
Sleeping Turrets. Most startling feature was in the chimney: a vertical window through which Loeb would be able to watch the smoke and flame from his hearth, ascending like mercury in a thermometer. The bedrooms, designed to be dark, had no window except a narrow band of glass around the roof-edge. They were circular, air-conditioned "sleeping turrets," cork-lined for added coziness...