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...thing, land shots make for much more precise measurements of impact areas than do missile shoots into the ocean. For an other, sending a few Jeeps into the desert to pick up the pieces of an impacted missile is a whale of a lot cheaper than sending a flotilla of Navy cruisers all over the Atlantic or Pacific to look for a rocket launched from Vandenberg or Canaveral. And finally, White Sands has more monitoring equipment planted within its 4,000-square-mile confines than could be carried by any Navy force short of an armada...
...just stand there. Too much of the direction ("I ended up directing about 65% of the picture myself," Zanuck says) has no direction. Furthermore, the film is technically crude. In one crucial sequence the process shots are so badly matched that the mighty invasion fleet looks like a silly flotilla of peanut shells in a puddle. Worse yet. the film is confusing, and war's natural confusion is compounded. For want of legible maps, for want of sensible continuity, the spectator fails to grasp the operation as a whole: he often does not know where in hell or Normandy...
After more than five hours, a 14-ship rescue flotilla from five nations converged on the scene, and the Swiss freighter Celerina began taking on survivors. Three on the raft died of injuries. Twenty-one others, most of them painfully burned, were airlifted by helicopter to a Canadian aircraft carrier. Of the 76 persons aboard the plane, 48 were saved...
Pride of Castro's fleet is the still-commissioned Granma, the 74-ft. yacht from which he launched his revolution in December 1956. But for the rest of the 5,500-man Cuban navy, six Russian destroyers are being acquired to add to a pre-Castro flotilla of a dozen U.S.-built corvettes. From seven to ten 40-knot, missile-armed torpedo boats are known to have already arrived as deck cargo from Russia...
...deadly sport- tensely exciting, to be sure, but still a game. At any rate, the language of the first half of the book makes them all sound more like characters in a hopped-up battle between the cowboys and Indians. The enemy "is coming down the Volga with a flotilla of gunboats." Aten's commander announces at one point, "We'll load up with twenty-pound bombs and take out after him as soon as Bunny (Aten) finishes his tea." Those were the days when military airplanes rarely went faster than 200 miles an hour, and the involved dogfights possible...