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...silver screen." It's showing with Keaton's The Paleface. With great movies like these playing for free at a neat place like the MFA's outdoor Sculpture Court, there's no reason in the world to sit home and be bored tonight. The show starts at sundown...
...night, reports Clark, "Israel takes on the air of a nation under siege. In Jerusalem the population goes indoors at sundown and stays there. The lights illuminating the walls have been shut off. Auto headlights are covered with blue paint and the windows are covered with whatever blackout material is at hand, often blankets and rugs. Blackout wardens roam the streets, warning offenders and making arrests...
...suddenness of the fighting created some curious anomalies on both sides. Despite a blackout, the shop-window lights on Tel Aviv's fashionable Dizengoff Street and Allenby Road snapped on automatically at sundown; shopkeepers quickly turned them off. In Cairo, which lies but seven minutes by jet from the canal, the streets were brightly lit for hours after sundown. "You mean," demanded a sidewalk vendor in disbelief, "that we are fighting Israel with all these lights on?" By late evening, when the government ordered that all electric lights and headlights be daubed with blue paint, the war reports seemed...
...Sundown: Orthodox Services. 1 Bryant St. 8:30 p.m.: Opening Mixer at Memorial Hall. Music by Pywackett. Admission: $1 per person with Harvard Summer School Privilege Card; $1.50 with non-Harvard Student...
...times, has not only survived a quarter-century of strife and war, but grown and prospered beyond its founders' wildest dreams. Thus on May 7* Israelis will celebrate their nation's 25th anniversary by throwing the biggest bash in its history. The ceremonies will begin at sundown on May 6 at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. There twelve torches will be lighted by surviving heroes of Israel's 1948-49 war of independence. In a separate ceremony. President Ephraim Katzir and the chief of staff, General David Elazar, will light a memorial torch at that holiest of Jewish...