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...mere appendage to gracious living." Tree trunks serve as tables and the house looks like a quarry. "One of the major problems of the builder [used to be] the removal of boulders from the site. Now his difficulty is to find enough boulders." Picture windows are designed for "perpetual daylight; in reality, the owner discovers there is night [which] turns him and his family into ghosts in a cavern of black, shining glass . . . Put up blinds [and the results] resemble an airport closed for the night...
Coffin Lid. The turning point of the air war came when the Allies sent long-range fighters-Mustangs, Lightnings and Thunderbolts-to escort daylight bombers deep into the Reich. Engaged on equal terms, and soon outnumbered, the Messerschmitts came off worst. Knoke was shot down twice more in a month, but even after he suffered a fractured skull, he flew on. "Every time I have an enemy in my sights ... I watch him crash, coldly and dispassionately, without any sense of triumph...
...declared war on the Axis. In 1948 they murdered Cairo's police chief, and when Premier Mahmoud Fahmy el Nokrashy bravely outlawed the Brotherhood, they murdered Nokrashy as well. Two months later el Banna paid for his crimes: an auto load of gunmen shot him down in broad daylight on a Cairo street. The movement went underground.When it legally emerged again in 1951, its popular resistance to King Farouk and the British gained it many fellow travelers, among them a young colonel named Gamel Abdel Nasser and a general named Mohammed Naguib...
...France's controversial worker-priests. But their tactics, as well as their tight, centralized direction, are vastly different. Says Cardinal Lercaro: "The worker-priests hide the fact that they are priests; they act clandestinely, whereas my friars defend the teaching of Christ in the piazza in broad daylight." Like Father Toschi, all the Friars come from working-class families, and they are used to taking hard knocks. (Some of them fought with World...
...18th hour, "my back is stiff; my shoulders ache; my face burns; my eyes smart ... All I want in life is to throw myself down flat, stretch out . . ." He pushes his eyes open with his thumbs. Daylight comes, but in the 24th hour, Lindbergh has to strike his face and arms viciously and stamp his feet to keep awake. Over and over again he does his navigation chores: ". . . And 12 make 23. Twenty-three-what do I want with 23?" But even in a semi-stupor, he does his chores right. In the 27th hour, he joyously sights some fishing...