My wife and I got a baby sitter for the evening and went out for dinner and
a movie. We saw _K-19 The Widowmaker_. It's a movie about the first
nuclear ballistic soviet submarine in 1961. There is a brief scene showing
a slide rule on the upper right hand corner of a table. It didn't show the
rule up close, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was a Hemmi.

Unfortunately, this was probably the highlight of the movie to me. The
movie portrayed Captain Alexei Vostrikov (played by Harrison Ford) as a
reckless nut. Also, the movie beat the cliché of soviet bureaucratic
incompetence to death.

This kind of turned me off. By the middle of the movie, I decided that a
historically accurate description of the K-19 without all of the extra
dramatic stuff would have been more exciting.

Jeff Harper