Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respect of most fellow Governors and rang up a record for solid performance by pushing his politically unpopular proposal (see Civil Defense) for state-supervised construction of fallout bomb shelters...
...door session with 45 U.S. Governors, meeting last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Behind the doors Dulles provided some classified details to back up the most serious proposal before the annual Governors' conference: U.S. Governors should take the lead in getting their citizens to build nuclear-fallout bomb shelters, since a nationwide system of private shelters would blunt the effectiveness of nuclear blackmail, would save millions of lives and ensure the survival of the U.S. itself in case of nuclear attack...
...festival rally. All week long, Americans slipped anti-Communist literature under the dinner places and into the beds of Iron Curtain delegates, or handed it out openly in the Prater. For their pains, at least nine-four of them girls-were roughed up by Communist guards, and an acid bomb was thrown into the publishing house printing the anti-Communist tracts...
...Patrick Quenfin (211 pp.; Random House; $2.95), has a hero who is both a stuffed shirt and a weakling. He hesitates to tell his wife, a beautiful, bustling, overbearing heiress, that he wants to divorce her and marry his secretary, a colorless, clinging type named Eve. This triangular time bomb is the dominant theme. The younglove interest is entrusted to a boy who seems to be losing his wits (his mother died in a mental institution) anoa pretty juvenile delinquent who is in danger of making a habit of motel weekends with married men. The murder victim is a gigolo...
...Seconds to Hell is rarely caught with its suspense down. There are the sepulchral groans and squeaks as the rusty nose-bolts on the bombs begin to turn. There are the sweat-beaded pauses when the demolition man draws the cables taut as delicately as if he were landing a poorly hooked fish. There is the drawn-out moment when a seemingly defused bomb reveals a second fuse and blows a man to bits. And through it all, Director Aldrich deploys his camera like a melancholy tourist over the desolate Berlin ruins. As drama, Ten Seconds is something...