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Sizzling Barrels. In the lowering weather, there was no U.N. air support. The U.N.'s booming Long Tom 155s, 105-mm. howitzers and multiple heavy machine guns filled the valleys with their clamor. Gun barrels got so hot that they sizzled in the rain. Supply truck crews struggling through red-brown mud quickly dumped their shell loads at new gun positions and headed back for more...
Lucky Hobby. Ott started time-lapse photography as a hobby at 18. With a secondhand 16-mm. movie camera, he photographed budding apple blossoms every hour for four days. The film made each blossom open like an explosion. To take shots oftener, Ott rigged up an electric clock which every five minutes started a motor that pulled down the window shade, switched on floodlights, and tripped his shutter. His movie showed the blossom slowly opening, flowering, then wilting-all in two minutes. He kept up the work as a hobby, while clerking in Chicago's First National Bank (once...
During Spain's Civil War, Bodo sold munitions to the Spanish Loyalists, thereby got on the wrong side of his old friends the Germans, who refused him patent rights to produce 88-mm. shells for guns supplied to Greece by the Germans. Athanassiades went ahead and made the 88-mm. shells anyway-and thus gave the Greek army a stockpile of ammunition with which to chase Mussolini's forces back into Albania. "They could do it," says Bodo, "only because...
Thereupon Milton and his optician brother Julian found a veteran camera technician named Friend Baker, who jiffy-built a stereo-camera by lashing together two standard 35-mm. Mitchell cameras geared to shoot "in sync." Early in 1951 Natural Vision, as the Gunzburgs called their company, began to peddle its process to the big studios. Fox, Columbia and Paramount said no; Metro took an option and let it drop...
...Nevada's Frenchman Flat. At a control point ten miles away, Atomic Energy Commission scientists got ready to turn on the remote-control firing apparatus. Then, at 8:30 one morning this week, the first atomic artillery shell ever fired whished from Amazon Annie's 280-mm. (11 in.) barrel and hurtled on its way. Above the target area, an atomic fireball blossomed, then a purplish cloud, that whitened as it rose swiftly into...