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...unit commander coolly radioed his artillery base: "I would be greatly indebted to you if you would kindly switch off that projector which is disturbing my work." Israeli shells zeroed in, and the light snapped off. As Syrian artillery opened up, the Israeli infantry bumped into a machine-gun nest in the presumably unarmed village, wiped it out with a grenade attack. After that the Israelis placed two tons of dynamite under the village walls and withdrew. One hour later, most of Tawafik's 40-odd houses blew up with a roar that shook the Jordan River valley...
...months of the year, shines through every part of the vast canvas, and the Santa Maria floats on a mother-of-pearl sea precisely like a Cadaques fishing boat at dawn. Her sails, however, are inventions. The transparent topsail shows the silhouette of a combined crow's-nest and Holy Grail...
...India's border, Nehru seemed acutely uncomfortable. To Red China's hysterical charges that Indian "expansionists" were behind the revolt and that the "command center" of the rebels was in the Indian border town of Kalimpong, Nehru entered a soft denial, and said Kalimpong was indeed a nest of spies-"spies who are Communist, antiCommunist, red, yellow, pink and white." To urgent suggestions that India join with Pakistan for the united defense of the subcontinent, Nehru asked ingenuously: "Against whom...
...Navy will never be successful in its attempt to move the albatross from Midway Island [Oct. 26]. I have helped some of these gooney birds to build their nests, and the aid was accepted gracefully, but the bird selects the site. Once I moved a nest, egg and all, to a new site only three feet distant; the bird was thoroughly confused and went about building a new nest on the original site...
...lovers, a young Hungarian artist played by Horst Bucholz and an orphaned Parisienne played by Roney Schneider, meet in a public garden. They have passed each other before, but this time he stops to flirt with her as she sits reading poetry. Beside her on the bench nest three beautiful fat oranges, symbolizing the simple and good beauty of their meeting. she tells him that she has a big family, that she is very rich, that her chauffeur awaits, but to encourage him in spite of herself, she kisses him before she runs away--"only because you are so lonely...