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...they consider the ill-informed criticism that is now aimed their way. He was also impressed with their safety record and with the strange mixture of gruesome, warlike preparation and peaceful pleasures that he found in the areas where they work. "Fishermen drop their lines in the ponds at Pine Bluff Arsenal. At Tooele, the day I was there, thousands of school kids were paying Armed Forces Day visits. There was only one 'incident': a bright teen-ager managed to start up a tank...
...just checked into one of the grand hotels of Europe." A staff of six stands ready to perform any service. The bar is stocked with 116 varieties of liquor, including pisco from Peru, ouzo from Greece, Indonesian arrack, Georgia moonshine from the U.S. and a 140-proof Italian pine liquor, which Fielding says is "really too strong to drink." The basement larder is packed with imported delicacies: pheasant in Burgundy jelly, smoked swordfish, Scotch grouse pâté, quail eggs, Norwegian kippers, whole lychees, albacore tuna from Oregon...
...script, by Tina and Lester Pine, is not much more than a revival of the old tenement texts of the '30s. When it comes apart, it is repaired by the star -and by Miguel Alejandro and Ruben Figueroa. As Popi's boys, they are not kids but brittle, wizened old men who pay for survival in the slums with bits and pieces of their most valuable possession. For, as Popi sadly illustrates, the real crime on the streets is not riots or muggings. It is the stealing of childhood from children...
...constituted the most dramatic revolution in sheer firepower since the invention of the musket. Colt revolvers were fast and reliable. In superior hands they could regularly hit a five-inch circle at 50 yards. At 100 yards, the Peacemaker could drive a bullet more than three inches into a pine plank. With such a weapon a skilled "shootist" became the most deadly single engine of extermination that the U.S. had seen until then...
...summer, a few forest fires had been contained on the outskirts of Fairbanks--an overgrown frontier town that is the closest thing to civilization in Alaska's 400,000 square-mile interior. Throughout August, the distant fires still created a persistent haze and a strong smell of pine incense. At any moment, lightning could ignite the dry moss in a forest much closer to home and destroy some section of the town, but the pool of trained firefighters was nearly exhausted. Besides local volunteers, firefighters from Montana, Idaho, and other Western states and laborers from the local prison were pressed...