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...also fail. What would happen if the cooling system breaks down? M.I.T. Nuclear Physicist Hugh Kendall paints a lurid picture. The nuclear core would become a molten mass, so hot that it could melt through anything guarding it. Subsequent steam explosions could rupture the outer container, releasing a cloud of radioactivity about two miles wide and 60 miles long. Much of the population in that area would be dead within two weeks...
Reports Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud: "After many journalists had lost interest in that front, David continued to make frequent trips. Much of what he wrote was of the horrors and frustration of that battle. He was convinced that the story of An Loc's plight, told by the people who lived it, would be one of the great stories of the war. He was determined...
...chances as only fair, even though it is defended by the esteemed Truong and 30,000 to 35,000 troops, including the highly rated 1st Division, three marine brigades, and airborne and ranger units. Opposing them are three Communist divisions and several independent regiments. When TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud visited Hue last week, Communist guns were not far off. Cabled Cloud: "You can hear artillery in the distance, and from time to time the thunder of B-52 strikes rolls through the city to remind people how close the attackers are. The population -200,000 in normal times-has shrunk...
...Nouveau, movement. What Kandinsky go from Art Nouveau was not so much its airy, sinuous quality as its decorative way of filling space: a painting like Landscape near Murnau, as late a; 1909, is full of references to the style with its slow, thick contour of white cloud, its carefully silhouetted forms ol green hill and pink road...
...more serious, introspective mood of the preceding works with a jab at ballet and even at rock dancing. From the wings leap blue-jeaned, mod T-shirted dancers to the classical strains of Tchaikovsky while simultaneously, pastel lights expose large cardboard stars, ringed Saturn, a large puffy white cloud, and a smiling crescent moon dropping down from the heavens. When the mock Corps de Ballet appears together--barely a semblance of unity--they cause bursts of laughter by purposely bumping into one another and getting out of step...