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...French put down a dense curtain of fire from light and heavy weapons, including 105-mm. howitzers; leaping, screaming, the Reds answered with machine guns, mortars, bazookas, recoilless rifles. Bearcats and B-26s from Hanoi arrived to light the horrid scene with flares, to strafe the swarming guerrillas and sear them with napalm...
Much of the bomb's energy is released as radiation- heat and light, which shoot out from the fire ball a fraction of a second after the explosion. Five miles away, the light glares as brightly as 100 suns; up to half a mile the heat waves sear everything directly in their path. Then, too, comes the flood of gamma rays (nuclear X rays). Trapped at first within the fire ball, these deadly rays burst forth a fraction of a second after the bomb explodes...
Where is the Korean war leading the world? Will the fierce forest fire in the mountainous land below the 38th parallel be confined to the Korean peninsula? Will it spread around the globe, to sear the capitals of the world with atomic fire? Or is 1950 the beginning of a series of slow, limited wars that will keep the U.S. and its allies committed in battle for generations...
...tell men they have failed. ... I cannot allow myself to get angry. . . .'" But Mrs. Marshall also wrote: " [They] have never seen him when he is aroused. It is like a bolt of lightning out of the blue. His withering vocabulary and the cold steel of his eyes would sear the soul of any man deserving censure...
...bottle; this is why His Majesty's Colonel Ray Milland can't quite get acclimated to. Rollywood's favorite ninepin, Marlene Dietrich. He's busy looking for Professor Grosig and the formula for a poison gas. In fact, all your old friends are here: the fat German with a sear, the brave little Oxonian who is tortured while keeping his chin up, the big sex-appeal Gypsy boy with a tern shirt and 33 children, the usual retinue of glum Nazi henchmen, and, last, but not least, the genial white horse that wiggles its ears. You can't forget those...