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...Exercise Long Horn, the vast Army-Air Force mock war in Texas, the green-clad Aggressor forces had just seized a position deep behind the defenders' lines and were massing for a new attack. Suddenly a blank mortar shell exploded over the invaders' heads with a roar and a burst of smoke. The umpires stunned the Aggressors with a terse ruling: 1,600 of their men had just been put out of action; the exploding shell symbolized a devastating hit by a revolutionary new weapon, atomic artillery...
From a distance, the big A-cannon assembly looks like a loaded railroad flatcar, with engine cabs at both ends. When it is ready to leave the road to go into action, the two cabs rev up to a deafening roar and swivel around to push the flatcar sideways (see cut) across the terrain to firing position. Once in position, the cabs help lower the gun bed to the ground and then pull out from under...
Over Mobile, Ala. last week, two Air Force transports - a four-engine C124 Globemaster and a two-engine C-47-collided in midair, and fell with a window-rattling roar. All 15 people aboard the two ships-among them three returning Korean Army veterans and a mother & child -died when the planes crashed on the outskirts of town...
...contrast to this slow tempo is the terrifying speed of two motorcyclists, agents of Death. When Orpheus has abandoned his pregnant wife for Death, an ominous roar is heard and suddenly, Eurydice is struck down by the cyclists. Meanwhile, Orpheus is listening to obscure poetry over the radio in the Rolls, tragically ignorant of what has happened...
...crowd reacted with a roar of delight. It surged 15 deep against the police lines. It jostled and milled across the hotel lawns, and smashed flower pots in a wild effort to get closer. It chanted: "Eleanor Roosevelt zindabad!" (Long live Eleanor Roosevelt...