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...Thunder & Lightning. New dangers are shaping up. Soon Soviet submarines, submerged far offshore, will be able to launch guided missiles against the U.S. In a few years Soviet missiles may be capable of destroying New York 30 minutes after taking off from arctic Siberia (already dotted with missile launching sites). But danger is no cause for despair. Top U.S. strategists believe that the Soviet Union may never make a successful attack-or any kind of an attack-so long as the U.S. keeps up its guard and, above all, its ability to strike back. A strong, alert air defense...
...increases are in prospect. The estimated cost now runs to more than $4 billion a year. With the money, General Chidlaw can give the U.S. a growing margin against calamity; he can promise no more. "It is better," says Ben Chidlaw, quoting an old Cheyenne chief, "to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand...
...with dramatic effect. The third act, however, is a distinct disappointment, for which both the writer and the performers may share some of the blame. Johnston shifts from the more intimate episodes of the earlier acts to a series of short, emotional scenes underscored with a background of rolling thunder. Not only are these effects too grandiose for the size of the theatre, but the play nearly degenerates into a series of disjointed tableaus which lend little to its meaning...
...noonday sky from west to east, swept a brilliant fireball. It left a long trail of white (some observers said black) smoke, and it flew so high that it was seen almost simultaneously in Greenville, Miss., Montgomery, Ala. and Atlanta. Over Sylacauga it exploded with a boom like thunder (some said a series of booms). A schoolboy in Montgomery, 50 miles away, insisted that the blast almost knocked him off his bicycle...
Goodyear Playhouse presented an uneven play called Thunder of Silence, but gave star billing to an exciting new actress, Inger Stevens. Blonde, fragile and hauntingly attractive. Swedish-born Actress Stevens, 20, dominated the play in her role of a Czech refugee set down bewilderingly on a Midwest farm: her big-eyed silences were more eloquent than all the speeches of her fellow actors. Newcomer Stevens was recently seen as a teenager on the defunct Jamie series, with Child Star Brandon De Wilde...