Word: impactions
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...slick technical standards of Hollywood, Operation Abolition is one of the least likely film hits since nickelodeons first started to charge a dime. The movie is an abrupt, badly edited 45-minute short. Its eye-jolting camera work is murky, its sound track raucous and shrill. But its impact is pure boffo. Prints of Operation Abolition are booked months in advance by Army camps, student groups, American Legion posts, political meetings, churches and corporations. Pennsylvania Democrat Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, estimates that more than 10 million people have seen the film since...
...alone; for each man who arms the bomb, regulations require that another must be in attendance and watching closely. Knobs must be turned, safety seals broken, keys inserted and turned to close a series of detonator circuits embedded in the TNT that activates the nuclear core on impact...
...Before the crash of a B-52 airborne alert plane last January in North Carolina, one of the two unarmed H-bombs was jettisoned by parachute. The other crashed with the plane but caused no trouble (at worst, only the TNT in an unarmed H-bomb explodes on impact...
Three Princes & a Soldier. To the minority of Laotians who know about the war at all, it was simply a fight between the princes. For Laos is a country of princes and peasants, where the democratic process has made no more impact than has the Communist cry of revolution. There is Prince Souvanna Phouma, who claims to be Premier and is recognized as such by the Russians, though he is off in voluntary exile in Cambodia, cultivating gladioli at a royal villa borrowed from Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk. Souvanna is a man so enigmatic that he persistently refuses...
...good many of the play's individual scenes-some of them flashbacks that put Nerone on the stage-have dramatic color and impact; several performances-Sam Levene's as the doctor, Leo Genn's as the monsignor-are striking. But though its theological concerns often acquire theatrical force, The Devil's Advocate seems discrete and unfocused in the theater...