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...duration, blacked out completely one night last week, for a 20-minute test period. From across the East River, under Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan's 205,000 acres looked like a deserted city (see cut). But viewed from above, the city seemed to have vanished between its two starlit rivers...
With an eye to the technical advances of the military art as well as to the fortunes of war, Corregidor can observe another anniversary this week. Forty-four years ago, on May Day, Commodore George Dewey slipped in past The Rock on a starlit night. A signal light from The Rock flashed the warning of his fleet's approach, but only a gun on El Fraile (now Fort Drum) spat futilely at the Olympia and her following ships. Next morning the Spanish fleet, cornered like huddled rabbits off Cavite, was bashed to bits...
...doubtful whether Joseph Sepp Froelich, sharp-eyed as he was, had ever noticed the quiet, unremarkable man who lived in one of the cottages, spent his time hanging around Sun Valley Lodge, watching the skaters during the indigo-shadowed afternoons, sitting in the café through the starlit evenings...
...World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps and gas, then the star-destroying terrors of electricity, then the icy twitching of neon; and now, suddenly, the starlit darkness, as profound as that of Norman times...
...been seen walking down the road with rifles over their shoulders. Three officers began investigating Echo Lake, thought they saw a light. As one started for the door a shot rang out. The officer jumped behind a tree, sent for reinforcements. Around 10 o'clock in the bright starlit night, a huge force-14 State troopers and local policemen, eleven civilians-had assembled to demand that the gunmen surrender. There was the classic defiant answer, less frightening than it would have been if the boys' voices had not been changing: "If you want us you'll have...