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...testimony of a Warsaw ghetto revolt leader, the packed courtroom suddenly went dark. Outside, a truck had collided with a power line, cutting off electricity for blocks around. Only a single spotlight powered by an emergency security generator remained on, focused on Eichmann's cage. In its glare, the startled Eichmann turned his back on the courtroom, covered his face with his hand. As a Polish Jew was recounting the deportation of 10,000 Jews to Belsen extermination camp, a balcony spectator suddenly leaped up shouting "Bloodhound! Bloodhound!" Eichmann paled and swallowed hard. As guards escorted...
...April 21). Still, it was a magnificent milestone on man's path into space; it was a signal achievement of U.S. science. And it brightened the cold-war world with a luster all its own. It was a gaudy American gamble, a nation going for broke in the glare of pitiless publicity...
Bainbridge also termed it "important that Russians and Americans don't just glare at each other, but that they talk to each other and try to see what the other man's point of view...
Pilot Norman L. Widen, his eyes corked black to cut glare, swung his twin-engined P-38 sharply over a German-held airfield in Tunis, put an Me 109 in his gunsight and blasted away. Just as the 109 coughed black smoke, a sudden clatter of shells peppered Widen's armor plate from behind, clipped his helmet and set his own plane afire. Quickly, Widen pulled back on his throttles and bailed out. As he drifted toward the ground, Widen saw his assailant: another Me 109 was circling him menacingly. Mindful of stories that Nazis had been known...
...returned. Harvard gave him a laboratory to work in, but restless Din Land passed up a degree, left school to make his polarizers and carry on research. His chief aim was to sell Detroit on a system of polarized auto windshields and headlight lenses that would take the glare out of night driving. The industry never accepted the idea, but Land has not yet abandoned hope...