Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Psycho?" Outside a policeman lobbed a tear-gas bomb through a window. The choking fumes drove Unruh downstairs. In a few minutes he opened the back door and came out, hands high, apparently completely unconcerned. A cop scrambled forward, handcuffed him. As he was hurried off, to be questioned by police and psychiatrists, a harried and sweating cop snapped...
...Bomb. At X minus 15 minutes, a bomb set off a cloud of bright red warning smoke. The gantry crane had been wheeled away; the rocket stood slim and alone. Just before X minus ten minutes, a man jumped up on the launching platform and pulled the safety plug from between the rocket's fins, and thus closed the control circuits. It was ready to fire...
That is the main thing that bothers the hero of ex-Physicist Mitchell Wilson's long-winded novel (a Literary Guild se lection for October). The hero's other worry: that private interests are hypnotizing the U.S. public with the A-bomb while they quietly muscle in on Washington to seize control of atomic energy. Hardy readers who plow through all of Lightning's small type will learn what he does about it and, incidentally, what life can be like for an atomic physicist these days. There seems to be frustration aplenty...
...machine-tool company, where he buries his ethics and tries to wiggle into a managerial position. But Erik's big pitch is a big flop; his employer outmaneuvers him. So he signs up with the Government as a research physicist, helps split the atom and make the bomb possible. In postwar Washington (and still panting after the big money 5, he is about to team up with malefactors of great wealth who want to kidnap atomic energy for private profit. But a Congressman's rabble-rousing speech sickens him, sends him back to unhampered research behind university walls...
...when he left his village and moved to the capital, Carlos ran up against a lot of other matters, and almost all at once. There were such puzzling things as the political democracy of John Locke, the Marxian dialectic and the news (slightly belated) of the atomic bomb. Author North seems to think that it could happen that way almost anywhere in Central America. He tells how it happened with Carlos...