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Twenty years ago, over an arid stretch of New Mexican sand that the Spaniards called Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death), history's first atomic bomb blasted the dawn. This is the sometimes chilling story of that still chilling event. The author, a correspondent in TIME'S Washington bureau, has done a painstakingly thorough job of reporting that makes that lurid moment seem to have happened only yesterday...
...assembly and testing of the bomb that would bring Japan to her knees. "Oppie," as he was known to his colleagues, was relaxing over a volume of John Donne's poems when word reached him that the Air Force had granted a site for the test in the Jornada, 55 miles northwest of Alamogordo. Asked to suggest a code name for the site, Oppie glanced at the line he had just read...
...reproduces his choicer metaphors. Sample: "I am the dynamo, but the people is the electric charge, and together we make an automobile." The contempt of El Tiempo, spokesman for the old-line Liberal Party, only convinced Gaitan that he needed his own mouthpiece. Last week he had it: La Jornada (The Working Day). As prose, La Jornada's fiery editorials did not compare with El Tiempo's. But they spoke the language of the restless masses who threaten to upset Colombia's old order. If his united front with the Communists stays united, Gaitan...
...JORNADA-R. L. Duffus-Covici, Friede ($2.50). Historical romance of the U. S. Southwest, by a prolific but careful journalist...
...Sixteenth Jornada...