Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FREE-WORLD historians may one day record that victory over Communism was won not by the conquest of space or the big bomb but by the rapid-fire rifle, armed helicopter, the knife and the strangling wire. The U.S.. at least, is betting so heavily on that possibility that guerrilla warfare training has become the nation's fastest-expanding field of military activity...
...faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman (Max von Sydow) sick with world-sadness because "the Chinese now have an atom bomb," the pastor starts a confident trust-in-God homily that turns by stages into a pathetic malediction of the "echo God" who answers prayers with superficial comfort. The fisherman's consequent suicide leads the pastor to more destruction by words, cruel words to the village schoolteacher (Ingrid Thulin), whose...
...objection that the United States is cluttering space is far more serious. Already the U.S. has a poor international reputation for its "behavior in space," due to the Starfish experiment. Project Starfish was one of the nuclear tests conducted at Johnston Island last year. A 1.4 megaton bomb was detonated at an altitude of 250 miles on July 9, injecting radiation into the earth's magnetic field and creating and artificial Van Allen belt. This radiation did not disappear as American scientists predicted--in fact, it has rendered useless three satellites, as well as interfering seriously with the work...
...Broadway To the Water Tower. The Second City troupe is unequaled among U.S. revue groups for its acting skill, imaginative verve, and satiric intrepidity. It lives up to its own reputation in this tart hit-and-run raid on Cuba, bomb shelter salesmen...
...reporters. By his own estimate, he has logged 1,500,000 miles in not quite 40 years, celebrating things that few of his colleagues would bother to write about. "This is the only city in America where a dried grape ranks on a par with President Kennedy, the atom bomb, Nikita and the Cuban Reds," he wrote from Fresno a fortnight...