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...areas to gun positions. When he discovered a wounded gun crew, he stayed behind to cover their withdrawal. Donlon himself was wounded four times, the first a stomach wound into which he stuffed a handkerchief to stem the flow of blood. Yet he refused aid for himself until after daylight, when all of his men had been tended...
...Daylight Savings Time ends tomorrow at 2 a.m., which will become Sunday's second 1 a.m. when you set your clock aright, whereupon, a single hour later, will come another 2 a.m., following which the world will continue to turn on schedule...
...Hammarskjöld's close friends knew that this dispassionate diplomat was a tormented man who poured out his emotions in highly impassioned poems, aphorisms, haiku and prayers, dealing, as he put it, with "birth and death, love and pain-the reality behind the dance under the daylight lamps of social responsibility...
...Resurrection's opening scene, Schweitzer (also director) mounts his camera on E. Savelyeva, who trundles down hundreds of yards of oppressively black corridors. The swaying field and the sharply subdued tonal range of blacks and dark greys continue for several long minutes. Abruptly, the corridor leads into daylight. The camera becomes stable, the greys turn brilliant white, and like the prisoner whose path we have been following, we are glad to be out of the aggravating dark, but able to adjust only slowly to the new light...
...freedom house, drivers glaring at summer volunteers who sit on the porch. Or the carloads of white men, speeding past on the highway screaming curses into the wind and thrusting their arms into the air in obscene gestures. Every field worker experienced the automobile chases by dark and daylight. Seventeen cars chased freedom workers back to Holly Springs at speeds over 100 m.p.h. after one night meeting in Oxford, Miss. But more often its just a pickup without any license plates or a police...