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There, where France's shame had been twice compounded-in 1870 when Napoleon III surrendered to Moltke, in 1940 when Rundstedt's army poured through a gaping rent in Corap's line-Rundstedt sits with his staff. On the breast of his tunic gleam bright ribbons won in that and many another triumph-Poland, Russia, the Lowlands-and from his high collar dangles the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. But Gerd von Rundstedt has little time for dreams of past glories...
...Jersey, since 1764, Atlantic coastwise mariners have navigated by the gleam of the Sandy Hook lighthouse. Once in 1776 a U.S. Army captain smashed the light to hamper the movements of British ships. Last week, for the second time in 178 years, the dimout regulations doused the light again...
...months ago this little broadcasting outfit, which the men now call "the greatest thing ever to hit Fort Greely" was a gleam in Major Adams' eye. By December, transmitter, turntable, mikes, etc. (purchased with money from a lottery) arrived on Kodiak Island. By January the station was on the air with what the Army calls "horse-blankets" (discs), strictly sweet music for the starved listeners. Soon Kodiakers were filing into the studio with their guitars, mandolins, fiddles, anxious to help...
...theory Cairo is blacked out from dusk to dawn. Actually there exists something between a dimout and peacetime illumination. From about half the buildings lights gleam through the large open windows. Street lamps have been extinguished, but cars have bright blue head lamps. There is little fear of air raids. The so-called warnings are pathetic horn toolings. The other day at high noon the British and American pedestrians completely ignored them...
...problems were licked. As an automaker he was an old hand, getting kind of tired of it. Mass-producing tanks and bombers was new and exciting. The gigantic engineering and production problems took him back to his bicycle-shop days, when mass production was just a bright gleam in his eye. His "1,000 airplanes a day" was neither an idle boast nor a positive promise; it was just good American cockiness-the kind it took to make the first million Model...