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Nothing about the church is more functional, or more imaginative, than its 38-ft.-square window, which Emil Frei and Robert Harmon designed. Since the window faces the congregation, they made it only partly transparent-to cut down glare. By day, the opaque areas appear in silhouette; with interior lighting at night, they create a mural effect. The church itself is somewhat stiff in design, and the window's weaving composition is contrastingly amorphous...
...Suddenly, a rabbit bounded out of a nearby hole and fled across the heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees. Diana spotted the quarry almost instantly. When the rabbit was about 75 yards away, Falconer Wolfgang Stehle suddenly called "Habicht frei" (Hawk free) and released the thong which bound straining Diana to his. wrist. Wings pounding for quick altitude, Diana flashed after the rabbit. Closing fast, she wheeled into a vertical bank between two fir trees and plummeted downward for the strike...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Weber's overture to Der Frei-schütz, Beethoven's Second Symphony, Sibelius' Third Symphony. Conductor: George Szell...
...when peasants of the old cantons first learned from signal fires on the peaks that Habsburg rule had ended. This year as always, nearly all the day's eloquent oratory, in big cities or small hamlets, ended with the sentence from Schiller's William Tell: "Wir wollen frei sein wie die Voter waren" ("We swear we will be free as were our fathers...
...target of the title is a newly sprung-up clump of naval stores (oil, barges, etc.) spied out by reconnaissance craft at Frei-hausen, Germany. The camera follows the raid preparations: selection of the target by the Chief of the Bomber Command in his great hall papered with maps, cluttered with ceiling-high ladders, scale rulers, calipers, telephones; designation of one experienced squadron to make a low-level attack; instruction of the chosen crews at Millerton Airfield by the Wing Commander; arming, gassing and readying the bombers; and, when night comes, the takeoff...