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...moonless night is"seven men wide"; it is so dark a man could be two yards from a crouching figure and not know it. Moving toward the enemy by compass, instinct and hope, the patrol covers 3½ miles in 3¼ hours. With another mile to go, Sheldon is so obsessed with the task of getting there that he hardly thinks of what he must do when he arrives. The Germans take care of that. Spotting the patrol, they open up. The fire is that of a battalion; by serving as a target, Sheldon gets the information...
...moonless night last week off Korea's northeastern coast, a party of British commandos and U.S. marines put out in small boats from the fast transport Horace A, Bass. The Americans were serving with the 41st Royal Marine commandos, commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ferris Grant, a Londoner. The raiders' objective: the Communist east-coast rail line along which vital supplies were flowing from Vladivostok to Wonsan...
...clear, moonless night, far from any city glare, a keen-eyed observer can see in the sky a faintly glowing cone. This is the "zodiacal light," which astronomers believe is sunlight reflected from dust particles revolving around the sun like microscopic planets. In Sky and Telescope, Astronomer Otto Struve of the University of California tells how he thinks the dust got there...
...dark and moonless night last July, a 31-year-old Long Island housewife named Mrs. Andrea Gehr found herself engaged in a furtive and embarrassing job of housebreaking. She got quietly out of an automobile which had brought her up a woodsy Putnam County lane and left the car in the shadows. Then, flanked by three private detectives, she climbed a fence and sneaked through the gloom toward an unlighted summer cottage...
...moonless nights on Scotland's Isle of Mull, they say, a lonely dog still howls on the beach for his Spanish master drowned 362 years ago in the peaceful waters of Tobermory Bay. Both had sailed against England in 1588 in King Philip's mighty Armada. On the homeward trip, their ship "much beeten with shote and wether," sailed westward into Tobermory Bay where her grandee captain, arrogant even in defeat, demanded food and aid from the local Scots...