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...basically the description that Greenglass gave in his impounded testimony. Whether or not such knowledge was vital to Russian development of the bomb remains speculative. In any case, the same general principles are used in modern tactical atomic weapons, even though engineering refinements have gone drastically beyond the crude "Fat Man" version of 21 years...
...author finds Johnson "a hard man to measure, an enigma, a mass of contradictions." He is "titanic and petty, courtly and crude, an authentic political genius and a cornball." With all that, "more than most men, his performance must be looked at in the main." What comes through almost reluctantly in this often critical book is that in the foreign policy areas that really count, L.B.J. has in the main acted with courage and good judgment...
Conrad Susa's incidental music is mostly just a series of sound effects. When Caesar's ghost appears to Brutus, Tharon Musser's eerie lighting makes it quite unnecessary to add the off-stage roll on the cymbal. And must we have another crude cymbal roll when Brutus runs on his sword? As a background to the aura of death at Philippi, Susa has also introduced on the harp an ostinato pattern from the Dies irae plainchant, which recalls the identical ostinato near the end of Rachmaninoff's tone-poem Isle of the Dead. At any rate, I suspect that...
...Gang. When a team fresh from Vung Tau in their black pajamas and black berets arrived in Binh Phuoc, an inland hamlet of rice and manioc farmers, they started from the ground up-and slowly-to win the confidence of the villagers. First project: drawing a crude map of the village, its homes and road accesses. They ate in the local restaurants as a means of getting acquainted, took guard duty at night, began a census, used part of their first paychecks to buy cigarettes to give away. Working in three-man cells, they visited huts during the day, passing...
...bonanza at Barrow will treble Australia's production of crude, reduce the amount of foreign exchange that it uses to import oil (now $280 million annually), and guarantee its future as one of the world's fastest-growing new oil sources. Together with the fairly new 10,000-bbl. wells at Moonie and Alton in the east, the find is probably the most important economic development in Australia since Merino sheep were introduced...