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...dusk deepened on a Korean hill one evening in 1952, PETER BRAESTRUP, 2nd lieutenant, U.S.M.C.R., by way of Parris Island and Quantico out of Yale ('51), ducked into a bunker for a quick mug of coffee. During 5½ months in Korea, Lieut. Braestrup had moved mostly on the edges of war. All at once, in the bunker, he heard the chatter of gunfire and the shouts of his 30 marines on the hill. Chinese Reds were attacking in company strength. He ran out, shouting: "Pour it on, marines...
...safety checks along the way, fuses and other devices that can take back Dr. Graves' decision up to half a second before the zero second, but if all goes well, the current at last rams into the device, and a mushroom cloud stands miles high over the concrete bunker where Dr. Graves gave the word...
...buildings in East Berlin best reflect how similar this totalitarianism is to that just past. The speaking new Russian embassy stands just a few blocks from where Hitler's suicide bunker still lies sprawled on its side. On e of my friends, who had been on a labor crew which built the embassy and had later field to the west, confided that it, too had a bunker in the basement, with concrete walls three feet thick. The resemblance between Stalin Allee's enormous, oppressive expanse of street and structure and Hitler's own Unter den Linden is more than coincidental...
...water-flood-oil property in and around Oklahoma's Nowata County and his process for leaching uranium out of the ground with water (TIME, Jan. 17). Estimated price: $400,000. The two Hunts agreed to pay all future costs of development and exploration. Said 28-year-old N. Bunker Hunt: "It wasn't too long ago that we were still mining sulphur like we mine gold. Then someone thought up the idea of melting it and forcing it to the surface with steam, and it revolutionized the industry. I think Shepherd's process may do the same...
Soup to Meat. Glenn Martin was not the first company that Troubleshooter Bunker brought to life. Graduated from M.I.T. during the Depression, Engineer Bunker got his start washing soup kettles for Campbell Soup at 38? an hour, helped build a power plant for the company before he left three years later. He put in two years as an engineer for the Wilson meatpacking company, worked with the Government on war contracts, became a vice president for the Kroger Co. in 1942. Hired by Cincinnati's Trailmobile Co., in two years he doubled sales to $52 million and boosted...