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...George," the automatic pilot, had been set by the human pilot before he died. The Catalina, her body riddled but her engines intact, drummed along through the sky. Keene had time to muse, stand around for "quite a while," open an after-hatch and gaze down 6,000 feet at the expanse of empty...
Twenty French hostages were seized by the German authorities in reprisal. They would be shot in three days if Hans's murderer were not discovered. When Françoise Galle, daughter of the village's leading citizen, walked through the streets she met the sad, angry gaze of the hostages' desperate relatives. Why, they asked, was Franchise's father doing nothing to save their sons and brothers? Was he not a French Deputy and their "ambassador" to Gestapo headquarters in Paris? Had the Galles gone over to the Nazis...
...Seabrook's earliest boyish pleasures had been to gaze at pictures of women in chains. One day Grandmother Seabrook had shown him "a throne on which a girl sat, robed in green . . . her ankles bound by shining metal circlets joined by a gleaming chain." Young Seabrook pressed his hands against her ankles "until my own hands held and drew the chains tighter." From that time on, William had two ambitions-to be a writer like his grandfather (editor of the American Sentinel) and to chain women. As a boy he lassoed little girls. As a man he spent...
Beyond these gadgets mankind swarms into what seems to be a decorated subway. There spectators gaze at large canvases by England's Leonora Carrington, Spain's Miro, Chile's Matta, all their works unframed, suspended in the air from wooden arms protruding from concave plywood walls. Every two minutes, while onlookers enjoy the spectacle, a roar as of an approaching train is heard, lights go out on one side of the gallery, pop on at the other...
...specter haunting Russia this week was not primarily the failure of the U.S. and Britain to open a second front. It was the first front- Russia's own front-that roused the specter of fear, and turned Russia's gaze to the valley...