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Atomic Cannon. Last week Okinawa was no longer anybody's junkyard. Four-lane highways lace the island. Modern typhoon-proof buildings dot the lush hills. On the seaside flatlands, Army warehouses stretch for serried miles. Hillsides are honeycombed with underground ammunition dumps. Offshore, sleek F-84s practice simulated A-bomb drops. And as the final cap to its new significance, the Army last week landed atomic cannon on Okinawa, the first in the Far East...
...radioactive rain from Siberia caused little resentment in Japan. The disastrous typhoon of Sept. 26 blew it out of the country and off the front pages of the newspapers. But Japanese scientists know now that they are under fire from two directions...
There is much, beyond the pulse of the story, to enhance the court-martial setup. The charge against Maryk of seizing com mand during a typhoon on the ground that Queeg was mentally ill - is an un hackneyed one. Again, Maryk's lawyer, Lieut. Barney Greenwald, would far rather be prosecuting than defending his client - and indeed wins him an acquittal by not defending him. Instead, he attacks others: first he twists a fatuous psychiatrist's tail, then twists the knife in an emotionally frayed and rattled Queeg. And there is the final celebration scene, a sort...
Engel's Guam station KUAM will carry nighttime NBC programs, but daytimes "we'll have local talent, local music, panels. We'll carry typhoon warnings and teach them how to farm. Believe me, there's a great need for public service." Guam also offers Engel a completely captive audience. He explains: "The humidity is so high there that they can't turn their radios off or it will ruin them. Just think of it: 70,000 people and all they can do is listen to me all the time...
CULTURED pearl prices, already rising, are expected to go up another 20% because of a typhoon that wiped out much of Japan's growing crop. The damage is a good guarantee that the pearl industry can look forward to a sellers' market for two years...