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...love for her only daughter. Cold, proud and wildly extravagant, the daughter was a great beauty and Madame de Sévigné married her off to a rich, twice-widowed count. But when her daughter left her side, Madame de Sévigné began carrying a literary torch. Mamma is soon berating the young countess for her recurrent miscarriages and successful pregnancies. The count, of course, is even more blameworthy. "You are reported to have said [regarding] my daughter's confinements . . . that the oftener she does it the better. Dear God! She never does anything else...
...There must be twenty thousand people trapped in there. They'll burn unless we get them out." There are at least 40,000, and the like of the fire that rolls over them has not been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With the Wind. As the victims race through the streets, they "topple and writhe in agony in the bubbling, flaming tar." But after four days and nights, the city of Harrington has the A-bomb licked...
Then the traditional torch, carried by Italian Skater Guido Caroli, circled the arena. Head high and chest proudly puffed, Caroli turned his eyes to honor his President, Giovanni Gronchi. That salute was his undoing; he tripped and sprawled awkwardly before the presidential box. Somehow he hung onto the torch. Seconds later he skated on to light the great bowl of fire that will blaze until the seventh Winter Olympic Games are over...
Borne north by car and plane, by skier and foot racer, the Olympic torch this week will travel from Rome to the famed ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites. Its arrival will open the seventh Winter Olympics. Even before they began, the games seemed headed for trouble...
...traceable currency away to burn, and the others dispersed (McGinnis, the gang treasurer, had spent the evening in a restaurant, talking to a detective and establishing a foolproof alibi). Two months after the crime, police found the remains of the truck, carefully minced by an acetylene torch and buried in a dump near O'Keefe's home...