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...missing. Dr. Oster is a marked man. Worst of all, some crucial flasks have been pilfered from E Lab. Several contain enough botulinus toxin to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles. One flask, warns Research Scientist Hoffman (Richard Basehart) is brimful of the "satan bug," a biological doomsday weapon that can launch death on a global scale. In this unpersuasive sci-fi thriller directed by John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape), it is only a matter of time until someone gravely inquires: "How worried are they in Washington...
With that sort of prospectus, the St. Louis-born Tangier expatriate was ordained as the high priest of the beats even before his first "novel," Naked Lunch, was off the Grove press. Now, in his second of what promises to be a Doomsday Quartet, Burroughs invokes a personal and "very inglorious Pantheon to give the modern world the needle in the same way Zeus and his gang broke up the ancient one." His Zenlike Zeus is the Persian Hassan-i-Sabbah, prophet of an 11th century cult of hashish takers...
Died. Harry Hart ("Pat") Frank, 57, first of the post-Hiroshima doomsday authors, whose 1946 Mr. Adam, describing the plight of the only male on earth to survive sterilization after an accidental nuclear blast (the army has to shield him from hordes of would-be mothers), sold 2,000,000 copies, was soon followed by other atomic potboilers (Alas, Babylon, How to Survive the H-Bomb and Why); of acute inflammation of the pancreas; in Jacksonville...
...London hall last week a group of angry investors bitterly chanted Handel's "Dead March" from Saul, and an accountant rose to read solemnly from a 75-page report. It was the Doomsday Book of Rolls Razor Ltd., the base of John Bloom's washing-machine empire -and it contained some shockers. Britons knew that Bloom had fallen badly, but no one had guessed quite how badly. Citing examples of incredibly slovenly bookkeeping, the report revealed that Rolls Razor, whose assets in bankruptcy are only $2,100,000, is in the hole to creditors for $11 million...
...incongruous setting for anything military. Otto Preminger's staged 'bombings' this week-part of a movie he is shooting here-did not shatter the peaceful illusion." Johnson was allowed to see the secret war room at CINCPAC, which he found quite different from the doomsday vault of a war room in Dr. Strangelove: "I kept looking for the button and I didn't find one. There was, however, the admiral's gold telephone. And I suppose one could make quite a mess by saying the wrong things into that...