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...knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
...their respective Latin admirers, carry the ball of repartee for the better part of the show. With the material at hand, it is an Olympian task, and it is no wonder that Director George Abbott was forced to throw in a liberal sprinkling of decolletages and torch singing to keep the play moving. Bumps and grinds are all right in their place, but one can't help wondering, after Othello, Streetcar, and Saint Joan, whether Miss Hagen's talents do not lie in other directions...
...bottom, galleries radiate in all directions. These galleries, mined by Neolithic man in his search for flints, are only a few feet high and can be entered only by crawling on one's belly. The custodian was disgusted when we refused his offer of a torch with which to explore these workings. "Why," he said, "I've had people lost in 'em for two days or more." He told us that archeologists estimate that the earliest mining took place on the site of Grime's Graves about 10,000 B.C., and that they were last worked...
...wonderful Finns." Once again, as the sun slanted long shadows across the Olympic stadium, the flags of the nations were paraded around the brick-red track. Seven Finnish naval cadets, handsome in blue uniforms and white caps, lowered the Olympic flag. On its high tower, the Olympic torch flared brightly for a moment, then went out. while the crowd sang the Finnish national anthem, the electric Scoreboard hopefully flashed in Latin the Olympic motto: "Faster, higher, stronger." If no general war intervened, the world's athletes would assemble again at Melbourne, Australia, for the XVI Olympiad...
...best vault by 0.72 in. Bob was urged by his faithful scorekeeper to do even better in the two final events. As darkness fell, Bob threw the javelin 194 ft. 3.15 in. to win the event. At 9:40 that evening, by the ghostly light of the Olympic torch, he took off on the 1,500-meter run. Pacing himself to the limit, he sliced 4.5 sec. off his previous best time, placed fourth in his heat, lurched to a dead halt 10 feet past the finish line...