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...main job went to the same submersible that originally found the bomb: Alvin, a 22-ft. deep-sea research ship whose bulbous shape resembles a puffed-up blowfish. Using its mechanical claw, Alvin was supposed to slip a cable around the bomb so that it could be towed by surface ship up the incline to a plateau 2,000 ft. below the sea's surface. Once it was on level ground, the bomb would be clamped in steel jaws and brought up to the 400-ft. level, where Navy divers would inspect the bomb. If it was intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Rough Sea for Charlie | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

They did, and one day last week the Alvin, a 22-ft. submarine equipped with special underwater cameras and a mechanical "claw," brought up film of an object it had spotted at 2,500 ft. Once developed, the film set off jubilation in Madrid and Washington, for the pictures clearly showed the H-bomb, apparently completely intact, partly covered by its own grey parachute. The recovery plan called for nudging the bomb along the sea's bottom for some distance until it rested on level ground. When that was done, the Alvin would use her claw to slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Bomb Is Found | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

After tripping backward into a love triangle, Ivanov, queasy with guilt, lashes out directly at his wife (a convert from Judaism played by Vivien Leigh). Gielgud's fingers claw at the nonexistent handle of a desk drawer, his eyes hesitate. His voice pauses for an instant and then spills out the word, "Jewess!" Finally, he tells her the doctor thinks she will die very soon, and his flaring agitation dies down to remorse...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Ivanov | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...first burst, close to the ground, caught the point man in both legs; then, veering upward, it ripped into the man behind - opening his stomach and chest and tearing off the top of his head. Another trooper, hit twice, man aged to claw his way almost to the cover of a tree. But bullets chopped him down just as he reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Time of Blood | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

Mother Hate. His enemies-other than his left foot and his right foot-are the kind of men who are more often rubbed out by network censors than by heroes. The first episode featured a villainous dwarf, the second a one-armed Chinese (The Claw) with a magnetized prosthesis. When he asked Smart, "Do you know what they call me?" Smart thought it over, replied: "Lefty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Smart Money | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

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