Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airline Pilot Russell Bidulph, flying a C-47 from Port Moresby to Lae, looked down on Lamington. Said Bidulph later: "It seemed to cough, and in an instant there was a Bikini-like cloud above it." In a single blast the whole northern side of the peak had blown up. The black cloud, "full of streaks of red lightning," boiled up to 50,000 feet, mushroomed 100 miles wide. Not molten lava, but pumice dust and hot scoria (like clinkers from a furnace) flew out of the crater, making the earth for miles around too hot to live...
...just after he turned 18 and liable for the draft, he volunteered for the Navy. Soon after he joined, he sat in the movies holding hands with his girl. They were showing newsreels of the Bikini A-bomb test. For the first time he was frightened of war. Without knowing it, he squeezed Mary's hand so hard that she cried out. "I was sorry for those ships going down," he says. "I told myself, 'Tatum, you ought to be in a foxhole, not on a ship. This is where a man can get hurt...
...Navy. Also a topflight airplane pilot, in World War II he first commanded a fighter outfit in Europe, then became boss of a bombardment division. Even his knowledge of the atom bomb is intimate: he was deputy commander for all Army and Navy aviation at Operation Crossroads, the Bikini bomb test...
...lost an eye. He wrote little of his suffering, though he noted: "I have probably received in divided doses, as a sort of voluntary guinea pig in a hospital laboratory, the same deleterious effects I might have sustained in one massive explosive emanation, had I been an experimental Bikini goat...
...next year's bathing suits will be conservative (see cut). Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: "French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer." Cole's new bathing suits, as form-fitting as ever, go in heavily for vertical patterns to help the wearer look slim. The brightest eye catcher on display was a lace & jersey suit sparkling with 24-karat gold. Price...