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...Bottom. "?La Bomba es recuperada!" shouted villagers in the fishing town of Palomares five miles away. "They have pulled it up!" In Madrid, one newspaper suggested that the recovery was a Holy Week "miracle." For Palomaresinos, the splash-out meant a return to workaday chores that will always be colored by the phantasmagoria that ensued after a bomb-laden SAC B-52 collided with a jet tanker in their skies last Jan. 17. Ever since, hundreds of airmen, many in Martian masks and protective clothing, had scoured the countryside collecting the remains of the three bombs (two burst open...
...Wave his employed every technique of the art of film to enhance our perception of our workaday world, Although the initial intensity of the movement has subsided, the experimentation which it introduced has become deeply entrenched in the modern cinema and may lead to even fuller expression and perception in the future
When a comedy is still vital after three decades, it cannot be living on gags alone. Something in You Can't Take It With You stirs the get-away-from-it-all urge in the American psyche. Call it the raft complex, that free-floating armistice from all workaday concerns that Huck Finn declared as he drifted down the Mississippi. Whitman distilled that spirit when he wrote: "I loafe and invite my soul...
...thousands of offices and factories all over Italy, the visit of a friendly little salesman with a plain brown briefcase is as much a part of the workaday routine as the coffee wagon is in the U.S. He is the neighborhood cigarette peddler, and every week he makes his rounds with a fresh supply of Camels, Kents and Marlboros at prices ranging from 40? to 48? a pack. The same brands sell at 77? to 79? at the state-owned tobacconist's, for the state tobacco monopoly imposes a 35? duty on every legally imported pack of cigarettes, while...
...First Team has ever existed in the history of warfare. Some 3,000 of its men are trained paratroopers, and the rest are expert in heli-assault landings. Its 428 helicopters have doubled the total number of choppers in use in Viet Nam. They range from scores of workaday Hueys to 48 Chinook transport copters with a lift capacity of some 13,000 Ibs., the first to arrive in Viet Nam. Four of the First's helicopters are the only ones of their breed in the world: giant...