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...That You, Comrade?" As they rode through the gentle, starlit night, Major Ehrgott saw much to depress him: a soldier in the probing point of the column rode a highly visible white horse; there were no security guards riding on the flanks; officers smoked cigarettes, and the men talked loudly. It was a perfect setup for an ambush. But there were no ambushes...
...cocktails from a bar hardly bigger than its baby-grand piano. The renovated Club Norman (once a servicemen's hangout and now Toronto's only real nightclub) had two bars: a Circus Room (striped awnings, murals that featured animals and weightlifters) and a Starlight Room (a synthetically starlit ceiling, oval bar, an imported floor show). Some 2,300 shoved into the club on opening night...
More than 10,000 Romans last week paid a million lire to enjoy a thunderous, starlit performance of Aïda. It was the biggest musical event since the liberation. In the open-air theater at the historic Baths of Caracalla, the huge (160 x 120 ft.) stage was set against two towering piles of ancient ruins. During the great second act 1,194 singers and actors were onstage, accompanied by a 140-piece orchestra. Artists, sets, costumes were roundly cheered-and so was a black & white cat which swaggered across the stage during the act's tense first...
...starlit Philippine sky covered the roofless ruins of old Santa Cruz church. Viennese-born Conductor Herbert Zipper stepped onto the plank podium-and the Manila Symphony Society's first concert since December 1941 had begun...
...first hour or so (he cabled) the great seaborne assault looked like a pushover-and then terror struck from the starlit...