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...Herodes Atticus, an Athenian philanthropist, had built it into the side of the Acropolis beneath Athens' magnificent Parthenon. Many of its marble seats stayed unchipped over the centuries; others were replaced, and klieg lights were installed to light the way for modern theatergoers. One evening last week, as dusk settled over Attica's brown hills, the moon over the amphitheater competed with the electric lights. An audience filled the 3,000 seats for a performance of Mozart's Idomeneo, a rarely staged opera with an ancient Greek background...
...flood-stricken states, decide on the Federal Government's best courses of action. He had a long-standing appointment in the East, at the American Bar Association's meeting in Philadelphia (see above), and the inspection trip pushed his flight schedule forward half a day. At dusk one day last week. Ike boarded the Columbine and left for Hartford and points east...
...dusk and raining. Storekeeper Pinney watched Krolik enter. A hefty six-footer, wearing a red-and-green golfer's cap, black T shirt and soft yellow moccasins, Krolik asked for a bottle of whisky -then, as Pinney turned, pulled out his new pistol and ordered: "Give me all the green money." Pinney put his money on the counter. Krolik reached, lowering his pistol slightly. In a flash, ex-Cop Pinney whipped out one of his own revolvers, shot four times. As Krolik fell to the floor without firing back. Pinney observed him "wriggling like he was going...
...year-old helicopter pilot from Hudson, N.Y., volunteered to try a rescue. It was the sort of mission Koelsch liked: he had voluntarily passed up rotation home after a long tour of combat duty because he felt that his rescue work was urgently needed. In the gathering dusk Lieut. Koelsch and his crewman, Aviation Machinist's Mate George M. Neal, took off, without fighter escort, to look for Wilkins...
...nose of the final stage of a multistage rocket. It can be followed by telescope or perhaps by radar, and the path that it follows around the earth will give information about the density of the upper atmosphere. If big enough, this kind of satellite will appear at dusk as a bright and rapidly moving star that rises in the west...