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...exactly 11:03 a.m. was far more powerful than that which had fallen on Hiroshima three days previously. Looking down on Nagasaki, Sergeant Raymond C. Gallagher of Chicago, wearing welder's goggles to protect his eyes, saw three "shock circles" rising through the boiling-up column of smoke, flame and dust. In that instant one-third of the city, including the Mitsubishi steel plant, had been destroyed. Engulfed in the explosion were 252,000 people, 36,000 of whom died, and 40,000 of whom were seriously injured...
...grease-monkey advised handsome Slo-mo IV Driver Stanley (Dollar Steamship Line) Dollar: "Remember, the lead is everything." Dollar roared out to challenge Miss Pepsi for the front spot. Suddenly the trailing Such Crust IV, a carbon copy of the Slo-mos, exploded in a flash of brilliant orange flame. A Coast Guardsman dived in and rescued her driver, "Wild Bill" Cantrell, who was severely burned. Then Miss Pepsi, by now the hot favorite and in a slim lead, went dead in the water with a hopelessly broken gear box. Dollar finished the second heat all by himself...
...role. Shortly afterwards, she apparently changed her mind because she decided to marry him. She puts him up in her elegant home overlooking the bay and gives him plenty of pocket money, but Palance is still brooding over her professional affront to him. With the help of an old flame (Gloria Grahame), he decides to eliminate Joan so that he can inherit her money-and presumably finance a stage production in which he will-play the romantic lead...
...Million. By that time it was so dark that the only light in the stadium was the Olympic flame, glowing dully through the fog. Mrs. Mathias, huddled patiently in the stands, watched the start of the 1,500-meter race, at 10:30: "We could see the orange spurt when the gun started the runners, but the fog was so dense we could see nothing else." Fighting foot cramps and a sick stomach, Bob staggered across the finish line five minutes and eleven seconds later to clinch his title. When he got his wind back and found his mother...
...shaft was blocked with material as solid as the living rock. Instruments and test structures, dug in for miles around, waited for the rock shock. When the charge exploded, the earth rose up in a mound, as if a giant fist had poked up through mud. Jets of flame burst through the debris. Jagged boulders soared through the air; good-sized chunks of rock landed a mile away, and smaller fragments covered a good three miles. The ground shook as if rocked by an earthquake, and the smoke of the TNT blacked out nine square miles of Utah...