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...atom bomb on Hiroshima, will take off from Kwajalein, 250 miles from Bikini. As it makes three trial runs over the orange-colored U.S.S. Nevada, takes readings of wind drift and adjusts the bomb sights, a loudspeaker will alert the whole area. Ten or more miles from the target, the operational ships will keep up steam in case the wind shifts. Aboard, some 40,000 men will lie down on the decks with their feet toward the blast and their eyes covered against blinding...
...Blandy, commander of joint Task Force One and director of Operations Crossroads, watched the army super-fortress "Dave's Dream" drop an explosive but non-atomic dummy bomb close to the center of the 75-ship target...
...Vienna last week, the simple question took strange forms. The Russians promised that their exuberant flyers would stop using U.S. passenger planes for target practice; next day, they used U.S. airfield installations instead. The Red Army had seized the head offices of the Danube Shipping Co., while the U.S. still held on tightly to the company's barges in the U.S. zone. Meanwhile the Russians presented to the Austrian Government a 43 million schilling bill for "food supplied to Vienna"; most of which Austria's peasants had taken from Austria's own soil...
...Ernie Bevin, target of spirited but disorganized criticism, triumphantly defended his foreign policy, although many Laborites would like to see a strong anti-Franco policy on Spain and a pro-Zionist policy on Palestine...
...will witness The Drop from 15 or 20 miles away, will probably not get their best stories until their ships move in close to look at the devastation later. Of the 169 newsmen converging on Bikini, only three reporters and a half-dozen photographers will actually fly over the target when the bomb run is made. But all correspondents had been investigated, shot full of injections, and issued enough instructions for an invasion. Some methodical Navy men had even made every newsman sign a document waiving right to any invention he might think up as a result of watching...