Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies of Cameron Highlanders were airlifted from Kenya to Persian Gulf bases, two British frigates slipped into the Sultan's coastal waters and four R.A.F. jet fighters roared up from a Persian Gulf sandstrip to fire rockets and cannon into the mud-brick-walled rebel citadels in the mountains of Oman. Cairo's press and radio filled the air with shouts about "a British attack on Arab nationalism." Actually it was not much of a war; only the current state of Middle East nerves made it front-page news...
...first stage fuel will be burned in 1.5 sec., giving Far Side a speed of 3,500 m.p.h. Stage Two, igniting a few seconds after the separation of Stage One, will double the speed. Stage Three will raise it to 11,000 m.p.h., and finally Stage Four will fire. When it burns out at 75 miles above the earth, Far Side will be climbing at about 18,000 m.p.h., and it will not stop until it has climbed 4,000 miles. When it falls back, the friction of the atmosphere will burn Far Side like a meteor before...
...England was once guarded from William the Conqueror on All Hallows' altar; erring Knights Templar were tried there for heresy in the 14th century, and the headless body of many a wrong-guessing notable was brought there from the nearby Tower of London for burial. In the Great Fire of 1666, Samuel Pepys saw All Hallows saved by Admiral Penn (father of Pennsylvania's William), who gave orders to men of the Navy Yard to blow up the surrounding houses...
Miss Bettis (The Serpent, and Fusima) makes the most of her wonderfully modulated and deep-throated voice. As "the most subtle" Serpent she slightly lingers with superb effect over the sibilants that Shaw carefully placed in her speeches. Tolan (Cain, and Zozim) brings real fire to the role of the world's first transgressor of the Fifth and Sixth Commandments. Moss (Prof. Barnabas, Accountant General, and the Elderly Gentleman) manages to make individual his three well-seasoned men. John Granger (Strephon) and Dorothy Whitney (Chloe) round out the cast...
...Fire Down Below. Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw concocts a fast-paced yarn of the Caribbean, punctuates it with lust, betrayal and revenge; with Robert Mitch um, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...