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Archeologists fought the idea. Using ancient and often inaccurate maps, they protested that the new tunnel would smash through the unexplored remains of the palace of Marcus Aurelius' wife Faustina. It might even barge into the buried red-light district of the 2nd and 3rd Centuries, A.D. Cried scholarly Dr. Roberto Lanzara: "Builders will strike something of great archeological and historical interest every 100 yards." But the engineers...
...foot of the bandstand. He looked up at a one-eyed giant who slashed at the air with great fists, roared like the Bull of Bashan: "Only by one big union of the working class and mass action can we hope for the final victory ... I would smash the ballot box with...
Those projects were to smash three dictators: Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and Honduras' Dictator Tiburcio Carías. The battle-hardened exiles in Costa Rica had formed a "junta for the liberation of the Caribbean." Said bald old Dominican Juan Rodriguez Garcia, who had sunk $400,000 in last summer's abortive plot against Trujillo: "The free people of the Caribbean are uniting against despots. The liberation of the Caribbean is our object...
...From Madison Square Garden, the circus was presented in five three-hour telecasts. The Greatest Show on Earth turned out to be one of TV's greatest shows, with a smash Hooperating (67.2). There were a few missing ingredients (the color and smells), but the long-distance lens caught such unusual details as a close-up of Unus' one-fingered stand, the dazed expression on a midget bareback rider's face, an elephant's wink...
...German shell had shattered four years ago when Corporal Brissie, a bazooka man, was leading a squad in the mountains above Florence, Italy. It had taken 23 operations and 40 blood transfusions to put Brissie on his feet; for a minute it looked as if Williams' smash had undone everything. But after a five-minute rest, Brissie was ready to pitch again...