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...civil guardsmen, and were being pounded by air and artillery that killed or wounded an estimated 100 Reds. But the second paratroop battalion, ordered to move in and block a Viet Cong retreat, timidly stood off, leaving great gaps through which the bulk of the Reds escaped at dusk...
Both species are beetles whose larvae live in damp places and feed on snails. The adult females cannot fly. When they reach maturity, they wait patiently for dusk, then climb to a high spot and turn on their seductive light. Males flying overhead spot the beacon and drop down to pay court...
...running light is a 21-candlepower light, attached to the grille, that turns on with the ignition. The resulting gleam warns of a car's approach not only at dawn and dusk, when headlights may be off, but also in broad daylight, when the car is in a shadow or blending with the background. Running lights were first used by Greyhound buses, which experimented in 1960 by leaving their headlights on in daylight. In 1962 the practice was made compulsory on all the company's buses, and since then, according to Greyhound figures, accidents have dropped...
...President Kennedy's funeral, many journalists and television men, subordinating their own private feelings, worked long and dedicated hours to describe and to photograph the ceremony. Among them was Ben Martin, one of four photographers we assigned to the coverage. At dusk on Sunday, he photographed the long line of mourners approaching the Capitol; then, not sure whether a dawn crowd might not be better, he was back at sunup...
...leadership. One of its few decisions: to abolish the siesta that has traditionally closed government offices for 21 hours each afternoon. Despite the mournful yawns of civil servants, the new decree enables peasants and rural officials to complete their business in the capital earlier and return home safely before dusk, when the Viet Cong start harassing traffic on all the roads radiating from Saigon...