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After years of training and practice in accuracy bombing, a red-faced Air Force last week gave itself low marks in its biggest test since the Korean war. The H-bomb dropped from a B-52 over Bikini on May 21, said Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles, missed its aiming point by "somewhat less than four miles...
Before hopping off on his inspection of nuclear-weapons testing grounds at Eniwetok and Bikini, snow-capped Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson watched with vital interest as two B-52 crewmen snapped him into his parachute harness...
Backstage, all was not serene with Old Trouper Mae West and her touring menage of Bikini-diapered musclemen (TIME, May 21). One of Mae's big hunks, Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 32, a likable sort of Hungarian Li'l Abner, renowned in physical-culture circles as Mr. Universe (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.), had crashingly fallen for Broadway's Daisy-Mae-Westish Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield, 23, in full view of the tabloids. A stern theatrical disciplinarian, Sexagenarian West, punishing Mickey for openly airing his romance, demoted him in her show by putting...
During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly. A fleet manned by 13,500 men stood 39 miles off target-Namu Atoll at the northwest edge of Bikini Atoll-while the big B-52 climbed to an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 ft. Suddenly a fireball flared through the dark-silver-white, creamy-white, orange, red, boiling outward to a three-mile diameter at a speed of hundreds of miles per hour. Along the horizon spread...
...admit that she knew anything about acting. The part she was playing in Bus Stop, the argument ran, was the same part she had always played: the dippy chippie. And in the studio commissary there was a good deal of low voiced derision about "the Bernhardt in a Bikini...