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...Christmas week out there under the wide open sky on a sandspit in midsea, just as it was back home, where stores bustled, and parti-colored lights blinked from the trees in a million windows. But for the Marines on Wake Is land it was the week when they fought and died in their last, hopeless stand...
...LaGuardia's own New York City. City Hall, where the Little Flower was trying to be mayor of the nation's biggest city while he was also heading OCD, was in an uproar. Workmen piled into the mayor's offices, tore up floors, laid wires, erected parti tions. Women in blue-grey uniforms, brass buttons and gold epaulets snapped salutes at one another and the mayor, twinkled off in all directions with Mr. LaGuardia's orders...
...soldier by a civilian. From Paris, capital of the collaborators, the radio broadcast bitter attacks on Marshal Pétain's entourage. In Paris Marcel Déat, the totalitarian-minded history professor and editor of L'Oeuvre, announced the formation of the collaborators' own single party. Called the Rassemblement National Populaire (National Popular Assembly), it is the newest incarnation of the Parti Unique which Déat and Fascist Gaston Bergery plugged in Vichy last summer. It aims to promote France's alignment in the German scheme of things, including the joint exploitation of Africa...
...returns to character again when the planes come aboard. On a platform at her stern the signal officer brings them in. They plunk down with a bang into the arresting gear, while the parti-colored uniforms of her goblins appear and disappear from her mahogany-red deck. Compressed air sighs and hisses. Bells ring. Whistles blow as planes taxi forward and are whisked magically below to the hangar deck on high-speed elevators. Occasionally a siren wails like a seagoing banshee as a pilot overshoots and cracks up against the barrier (but seldom hurts himself or crew...
...popular conception of camouflage dating from World War I, when multicolored blotches were used to break up outlines of ships, tanks, buildings, is old stuff. Chief reason: parti-colored camouflage alone gives little concealment from airplane observers, whose sharp eyes are likely to pick up shadows, breaks in the pattern of the landscape. Today the idea is to use plain, dull colors, eradicate shadows, break up telltale outlines. England has had considerable success in disguising airplane factories and flying fields as farms by distorting shadows, building dummy roads. Germany disguised many a new flying field by planting it in crops...