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...star may look as if it were on its own while revolving around (and concealing with its glare) a companion star as big as the earth's sun. Such double stars give themselves away by appearing to wobble as they swing around their orbits...
...very significant wobble. After watching it for years, he had decided that it must be the dominant member of a couple. Apparently, it was revolving once in eight and a half years around a dimmer star. He did not see the "dark companion" -"dark" only by comparison with the glare of Alpha Ophiuchi...
White-haired at 63, he was still burly, still erect. Going to the witness chair, he walked into the glare of cameramen's klieg lights with the air of a man expecting complete vindication. For two days, with the flat authority of the quarterdeck, he hammered away at the central theme of his defense-that the Navy had kept him so inadequately informed that he had been "misled" into believing an attack on Hawaii was "not imminent or probable...
...spotlights' glare, the 18 uniformed prisoners (including three generals) looked jaundiced and afraid. They had reason to be. The prosecution charged them with responsibility for destroying 209 Byelorussian towns, 10,000 collective farms, 1,150 hospitals, and for killing unnumbered thousands of Soviet citizens...
...obviously costly production of the best-selling (more than a million copies) novel by Ben Ames Williams. The story's central idea might be plausible enough in a dramatically lighted black-&-white picture or in a radio show with plenty of organ background. But in the rich glare of Technicolor, all its rental-library characteristics are doubly glaring...