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They did, and one day last week the Alvin, a 22-ft. submarine equipped with special underwater cameras and a mechanical "claw," brought up film of an object it had spotted at 2,500 ft. Once developed, the film set off jubilation in Madrid and Washington, for the pictures clearly showed the H-bomb, apparently completely intact, partly covered by its own grey parachute. The recovery plan called for nudging the bomb along the sea's bottom for some distance until it rested on level ground. When that was done, the Alvin would use her claw to slip...
...Madrid, censors have been reading entire newspapers-even all the ads) before presses roll. Instead, ten copies of each newspaper and magazine must be deposited with the Information Ministry one half-hour before it goes on sale. Though the ministry can still seize the total press run, it must take the case to the courts promptly...
...Madrid and Washington, the two governments revealed that only one of the three recovered bombs had actually survived the fall intact. Some of the TNT detonators on the other two had exploded on impact and ruptured the shell casing, permitting some radioactive plutonium and uranium to scatter over 18 acres in the impact area. However, there was no cause for alarm, Spain's Nuclear Energy Board quickly assured. Of the 2,000 "potentially exposed" people in the area, 1,800 had been examined thus far, and none had received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there...
Rubinstein's feats of memory are legendary. In 1903 he caused a sensation in Warsaw by performing Paderewski's Sonata in E Flat Minor the day after it was published; he learned Cesar Franck's complex Symphonic Variations on the train en route to a concert hall in Madrid. He can commit a sonata to memory in one hour, and he can play as many as 250 lieder. His friends used to play a kind of "Stump Artur" game in which they would call out titles?excerpts from symphonies, operas, Cole Porter scores?to see if he could play them...
...consider the protest a failure, though the government has not changed its position. "Many families in Madrid had first-hand reports of what went on; when they say what the newspapers said about it they realized perhaps for the first time, that the Spanish press lies...