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Donald Lyons (the General), whom many will remember as Agamemnon in the Ajax a few years back, is consistently entertaining. He may push a trifle too hard in places, but The Balcony needs the kind of heavy caricature that Lyons does so well. Without it, only the gimmick remains...
About two years ago, I was watching a historical film at the Brooklyn Fox Theater. In one scene the leading character called out, "Ajax!" Thereupon, about half the audience let go with a hearty and melodious "... the foaming cleanser...
Castro's newest weapons are short-range guided missiles. On land, he has the Soviet's stubby SA-2 antiaircraft rocket, a solid-fuel ground-to-air missile similar to the U.S.'s Nike-Ajax. A nest of six SA-2s is already installed and operational under camouflage at Bahia Honda, 45 miles from Havana. Radar guided, the antiaircraft weapons can reach targets within a 3O°-slant range of from 25 to 27 miles, or as far straight up as 60,000 feet. Another SA-2 site is reported under construction in Matanzas, 60 miles east...
...apparently, rockets. All the equipment pointed to large-scale coastal surveillance and air-defense systems. In other nations where similar Soviet help has been received, the contents of crates like the ones landed in Cuba turned out to be ground-to-air rockets, similar to the U.S. Nike-Ajax. Of the 5,000 technicians, according to the intelligence reports, one-half to two-thirds were military technical men sent to install and operate the electronic systems until Castro's men learn to handle the equipment. The rest of the specialists seemed to be economists, agronomists, industrial engineers-types desperately...
...proximity fuse. The investigators believe that Powers' U-2 flight was the first in four years to pass directly over a Soviet rocket battery -and that it did not take a very sophisticated Russian effort to bring him down (even a first-generation U.S. antiaircraft missile, the Nike-Ajax, could bag a U-2 at 68,000 feet). Once he fell into Russian hands, Powers refused to give his captors information that would have been highly useful to them, such as the names of his fellow U-2 pilots, what he knew about U-2 flights through the years...