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Refreshing Change. In London, Gil Winant was a striking contrast to his predecessor, that ruddy salesman, Joe Kennedy. He gangled; his hair straggled down in a black shock over a craggy face in which only the eyes crackled; he vibrated with a strange intensity. Once, shortly after his arrival in 1941, a luncheon crowd demanded a speech. Winant rose with a glazed look, and for four straight minutes of silent agony, stood shifting from one leg to the other. Then he whispered: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place...
...Shock (20th Century-Fox) is a mild word for what happens to a nice, petite young Army wife in this fair-to-middling thriller...
...steel towers on the little islands around Bikini to support 'batteries of cameras, radio-controlled and sheathed in lead against radiation. A legion of instruments will be exposed on the sand, built into concrete bunkers, or sunk in the lagoon. They will measure radiation, heat, shock and blast. Twenty sunken instruments will measure the waves, which might rise to a height of several hundred feet...
With his brother Bob, he built his own 507-lb. sled in a Republic Steel foundry -the only bobsled with all-steel runners, steel body and shock absorbers. He took a leave from his engineering job, spent weeks practicing. One week he thundered down Lake Placid's twisting mile of ice 31 times. He had cameras set up at each turn, at night studied the movies like a football coach looking for faults. The night before the A.A.U. four-man bobsled championship last week, he was at it until 10 p.m., walking the course, inspecting every angle, every little...
...Shock & Blast. Next came the shock wave, essentially a sound wave and moving with the speed of sound. Close on its heels came a shattering blast of air displaced by The Bomb's expanding gases. The shock wave claimed its victims by squeezing their bodies, compressing their internal organs, puncturing their lungs. When the vacuum which followed it reached them, the gas in their stomachs and intestines expanded explosively, rupturing the tissues. Then came the blast, at 500 to 1,000 miles per hour, sweeping them over the ground, along with the churned-up rubble and blazing wood...