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Ages in the midst of modern Europe, and it would hardly dare to attack the United States with the military resources at its command: a standing army of 20 mailclad bowmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...course the note turns out to be no joke, and one fine sunny day, during an air-raid drill, an ocean-going tug chugs past the Statue of Liberty, and 20 mailclad bowmen make a beachhead in lower Manhattan. They move inland through deserted streets and occupy a scientific institute-where, as it happens, Dr. Alfred Kokintz, the great physicist, is putting the final touches to the Q-bomb, a football-shaped object that will erase an area of 2,000,000 square miles if it ever explodes. The bowmen capture the bomb and the man who made it, take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...breast of his coat, dominates the new terminal platform. The platform was decorated by Professor Vladimir Frolov, who was killed recently in Leningrad after burying mosaics to save them from Nazi shells. A large mural depicts a pilot, a tankman and a tommy-gunner against a background of a mailclad Muscovite warrior standing defiantly beneath the walls of the ancient Kremlin. Three-bank escalators carry crowds of lean grim-faced workers from the glittering platforms to the grey streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Subway Shrine | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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