Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teak delivers its thermal energy in less time than a rabbit (or a man) can blink. Said the report grimly: "Retinal burns were produced in the rabbits at distances up to 300 nautical miles." This tended to support earlier Army research indicating that an atomic fireball bursting over a battlefield at night could produce mass blindness in soldiers scattered over a vast area...
Pork Chop Hill (Melville; United Artists). Silent over the battlefield hang the stars of a clear spring night. Suddenly a loudspeaker, shockingly close, blares among the forward positions: "WELCOME TO THE MEAT GRINDER!" The U.S. infantrymen, slogging up the lower slopes of Pork Chop Hill in central Korea, skip a heartbeat and a stride, and then move grimly forward-^into the meat grinder. And the audience moves with them into this heart-racking film translation of S.L.A. Marshall's classic report on Pork Chop Hill (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956)-that inopportune Thermopylae where the American fighting man wrote...
...accounts of these very different men's wartime experiences make for vastly different books. Yet both in a sense try to answer the combat soldier's battlefield question: "What am I doing here...
...Neutra, Eero Saarinen, Edward D. Stone, Engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Reviewing the past, assessing the present, and eying the future, the show leads to two major conclusions: 1) modern architecture has now clearly swept its early Beaux Arts enemies from the battlefield; 2) its architects, secure in their conquest, are moving on to new and more exciting adventures in structure...
...stocky, fiftyish Italian archaeologist, should know, for he is the curator of one of the world's most unusual museums, devoted solely to war and its bulky artifacts. As other pack rats yearn for stamps, china cygnets, or shrunken human heads, De Henriquez cherishes the debris of the battlefield. Over five decades Collector de Henriquez has spent $12 million of his own money amassing some 100,000 items, ranging from Stone Age spears to Jet Age missiles, from medieval Japanese muskets to Italian army glockenspiels...