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...lyrical songs What Makes the Sunset and I Fall in Love Too Easily, elegantly prepared for the I-walk-alone voice and manner-and Sinatra's unaffected, hypnotic singing of them...
...sunset and the colors of the earth...
...bird-cage home of plaited bamboo and braided palm-fronds on the weatherside beach of a coral lagoon, I commence reading-and on I read from the red hour of sunrise to hot, windless midday, through a breeze-freshened afternoon to a rose and lilac sunset, into the brief purple twilight and, lamp flame at full height, right up to when the Southern Cross is directly overhead at midnight. Day after day, night after night-the schedule never varies...
Tokyo Bonfire. The great planes took off about sunset. At Tokyo there were few enemy night fighters in the air, and the antiaircraft fire was set for 20,000 to 30,000 feet. This time, the B-29s foxed the Jap gunners and came in between 5,000 and 7,000. Visibility was good; the wind was moderate...
...more effect than the posters. In Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China, Japanese troops violated the last pretense of French sovereignty, * took full control over France's richest colony (rice, rubber, tin, coal). They arrested Vice-Admiral Jean Decoux, Vichy-appointed Governor General, promptly decreed martial law, a sunset-to-sunrise curfew. In Hanoi, Saigon (strategic harbor on the South China Sea) and other cities they disarmed French and Annamite garrisons. They formally proclaimed the "independence" of the Empire of Annam, province nearest the Philippines...