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...Apollo mission. As the astronauts were driven through the early-evening darkness from their crew quarters to the launch pad, their path was illuminated by a spotlight shining like a guiding star from a helicopter hovering overhead. At the site, the 36-story rocket gleamed starkly white, lit by searchlight beams that radiated from the pad, forming a crown of light. Nature added to the display: flashes of lightning glowed within distant clouds, and an occasional meteor streaked through the stars in the clear skies above the cape...
Within minutes, sniper fire broke out all around the Southmoor. A police helicopter with a searchlight moved in to illuminate rooftops. Foot patrolmen and detectives rushed into the area. Police ordered all streetlights turned off in a four-block area of the Woodlawn neighborhood so they would be less exposed. "Out there, everything is the enemy," said one detective as he looked out toward Jackson Park. "The night, the park, the abandoned buildings, the people-everything...
...Wicker, LL.D., associate editor of the New York Times. The searchlight of truth which your commentary throws upon the dark places of our national political life is matched only by your incisive criticism of international hypocrisy...
...more than 20 years, Trombe has championed solar furnaces as an ideal source of intensive heat for both industrial uses and scientific experimentation. In 1946 he fashioned his first sun stove out of a captured German antiaircraft searchlight mirror at an observatory near Paris. Moving to the old Pyrenean citadel town of Mont-Louis, where the sun shines as many as 200 days a year, he has since built five larger solar furnaces. Now, in masterly style, he has created his piéce de résistance on a hillside in the nearby ski resort of Odeillo. Compared with...
...have been a malfunction on the radar screen. Aircraft from the carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation were overhead by this time and saw nothing much either. However, four seamen aboard Turner Joy and one man aboard Maddox did report seeing silhouettes of a ship, and sailors said they saw a searchlight stab momentarily through the darkness. There were also sonar reports of as many as 22 torpedoes, though critics of the Pentagon pointed out that a sonarman may have mistaken the sound made by the engine of his vessel for torpedoes...