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...bomb bay was closed. In the purpling east, cumulus clouds bumped heads in a huddle. As Major Woodrow P. Swancutt pushed the throttles all the way forward, a rainbow shone overhead. Dave's Dream gathered speed, then rose slowly into the easterly wind...
...came out where the old road shone white...
...shone so brightly on the lake, the pines and oaks stood so peacefully in the quiet parkland of Vught, it was hard to believe that during the war this was one of the worst of the German concentration camps...
Pedro Leao Velloso was the watchful Brazilian. A lawyer and seasoned diplomat, Dr. Velloso sat silently and glistened; his dark green glasses, the scarflike handkerchief that poured from his breast pocket, the glistening mahogany-hued dome of his bald pate all shone...
...Gretchen shone in "school figures" (rigidly prescribed maneuvers) which call for the most technical skill, but are not much fun to watch. "Free skating," which accounts for 40% in scoring, is more to the public taste: it allows the shimmering pirouettes made famous by Sonja Henie. In this, Philadelphia's pretty Eileen Seigh, 17, outdid Gretchen. But Gretchen had made her points where they counted most...