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...stations, spotted from Libreville in French Equatorial Africa to the Persian Gulf, Air Force observers will measure the fading sunlight. Even in bad weather their photoelectric cells and elaborate timing devices will be able to record the instant of total eclipse. Knowing the speed with which sun and moon move in relation to the earth, they hope to calculate the distance between stations with new accuracy...
...Stockholm, beneath a quiet house, there is a deep, vaulted cellar, where candles substitute warmly for the sunlight. This is a favorite refuge for Swedes, not from bombs, but from the menaces of life in general. Rich, excellent food is served, limited only by the lack of imagination in Swedish cooking; beer flows from great casks, unfortunately diluted by edict of a government which believes that drinking can be curbed by alcohol-content laws...
...greatest works of secular art are darkness beside what faith and art, working together, can accomplish. Faith shines through the Chartres windows as serenely as sunlight. To see them is to give thanks that faith, like sunlight, forever returns to mankind...
Like a Crazy Clock. Comte turned on oxygen as he passed 16,000 ft., watched his altimeter going "round and round like the hands of a crazy clock." After 15 minutes it registered 32,000 ft. The fog turned thin and milky, letting a little sunlight filter through. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. Said Comte afterward: "The whole cloud lit up, with me inside it. I felt lightning hit the top of my head a sharp blow and run through my hands into the control column. The plane continued flying steady, but I was scared...
...befriending a tramp who has stolen his valise, Toto is invited to take shelter on a dreary wasteland at the city's fringe, where glum derelicts elbow one another to get into each stray shaft of sunlight that breaks through the winter clouds. By spring, Toto is busily turning the hobo jungle into a shantytown haven for Milan's poor, and imbuing them with good will. Among the newcomers is a badgered, not-quite-pretty girl (Brunella Bovo), with whom he strikes up a charmingly innocent courtship...