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...Thanks, buddy," as someone handed him a lighted cigarette. A stout medic at the flaps suddenly shouted, "Litter case!" Two soldiers walked carefully into the tent, laid a stretcher on packing cases in the cone of light from a spotlight. The man on the stretcher moaned faintly. A field dressing lay across his eyes. His face was dirty, bearded, bloody. A doctor in an undershirt looked at the medical sergeant across the stretcher and shook his head in pity. Then he leaned over the wounded man and began gently to remove the field dressing...
...planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...
...called because the Italian Counts Cone-stabile owned it for almost a century...
...Crimson will have a hard time with the weights, since shot-putter Bob Spears and weight-thrower Spence Cone are still granting and heaving for the Elis
...clear, moonless night, far from any city glare, a keen-eyed observer can see in the sky a faintly glowing cone. This is the "zodiacal light," which astronomers believe is sunlight reflected from dust particles revolving around the sun like microscopic planets. In Sky and Telescope, Astronomer Otto Struve of the University of California tells how he thinks the dust got there...