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...sleepless Target McDonald prepare to dodge or catch...
...covered, radioactive waters of the lagoon still prevented a closeup survey of the damage to what was an 87-ship target array, but the tonnage scoreboard for the first two controlled tests of the bomb's power against naval strength heavily favored this submarine burst. The score thus...
...ominous sample. Because it sank only a handful of ships, around the world there were some who scoffed at it. But military men saw a point that few laymen seemed to consider: in war a power with mastery of the atom would no more attack a prime enemy target with one bomb than a machine-gunner would go into battle with one round in his magazine...
...five ships sunk* were almost directly beneath the point of detonation (probably 500 yards short of the aiming point, and only half as high), and their passing left a hole roughly half a mile in diameter in the target array...
...magazine started right in by denouncing historical movies, because their "unmeasured enthusiasm for 'historism' " ignores "the spiritual riches of Soviet man." Chief target was Russia's foremost film director, Sergei Eisenstein, whose Ivan the Terrible, Part I got critical raves when released in Paris last March. Ivan, Part II, said Kultura i Zhizn, would not be released because it was "antihistorical and anti-artistic," actually dared to show Ivan "not as a progressive statesman, but as a maniacal villain raging in a circle of a gang of young madcaps...