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...January and February, but since then it has climbed steeply. By March it had reached 29-48 millimicrocuries, and scientists of Japan's Meteorological Institute estimate that it will reach about 50 millimicrocuries for the month of April. After the notably "dirty" Soviet tests of 1958, the figure peaked at 94.45 in May of 1959. Japanese meteorologists point out that their last winter was very dry with rainfall registering only about half that of three years ago. They predict that when the heavy spring rains arrive, they will pull down enough fallout to equal or exceed the 1959 peak...
...authorities, including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Public Health Service and the Weather Bureau, feel sure that the 1962 fallout will probably equal or exceed the 1959 peak, but they are not alarmed. The fission energy yield of the Soviet 1958 tests was 10 to 15 megatons. The total energy of last fall's Soviet tests was much greater (170 mega tons), but most of it came from nuclear fusion, which creates little fallout. Only about 25 megatons came from nuclear fission of uranium or plutonium, and since many of the Russian tests were exploded at high altitudes, their...
...passed, and sheer numbers on the screen no longer amaze anyone. Kurosawa, however, manages to restore our old sense of wonder by taking his shots from impressive angles and by composing each sequence powerfully. We watch a limitless mob suddenly spring to life in their enormous dungeon; at the peak of their fury only the tips of their improvised clubs are visible, flailing fiercely up and down in the prison gloom. Then the camera shifts to the hill outside. From a point at the base of the slope, we watch the gate burst open at the onslaught of hundreds...
...greater part of The Hidden Fortress takes place in a craggy range of mountains. This setting enables Kurosawa to show his characters at marvelous visual angles, sometimes prone against a sharply rising cliffside, sometimes slipping downwards in an avalanche. Always when the action reaches its peak, he increases the tension by emphasizing the natural angularity, and hence the precarious status of Princess and her followers...
Steelmen rarely do that well any more. The industry has never again matched 1955's peak production of 117 million tons; technological changes and steel price increases have induced many former steel users to shift to steel substitutes. In the past five years, per capita steel consumption in the U.S. has dropped from one-half ton to about one-third...