Word: blast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial written by John Pennekamp. Ten months later Florida's Supreme Court not only upheld Brautigam but, in an unusual aside, commended his "courageous public service." The ruling came too late to help Brautigam. In a primary election held less than ten days after the Herald's blast, he was trounced by a little-known opponent. In his libel suit for $2,000,000 Brautigam charged that the Herald had "maliciously" undermined public confidence in his integrity...
...Figures? Hearing the blast, the U.S. tobacco industry quickly replied. Said P. Lorillard President Lewis Gruber: "Our advertising has been and is scrupulously honest and truthful. Our claim has been a simple statement of fact-Kent filters best of all the leading filter brands. These are facts, and they are documented." Added R. J. Reynolds President Bowman Gray: The figures used in the congressional report were published in a magazine (Consumer Reports) in March 1957; since then, Reynolds has improved its filter to reduce nicotine by 32%, tars by 27%. "It would appear that the figures quoted in the committee...
...five places (Plymouth Driver Larson was second). Said Winner Jim McMichael: "You've got to pretend it's a real emergency to force yourself out fast and in fast. You've got to pretend a trailer truck is coming straight at you and is going to blast you to pieces if you don't get back in line. It also helps to take off for your pass as if you were leaving the scene of a bank robbery. With contestants careening down the road like bank robbers, the wonder was that there were no accidents...
...shoot 15 holes before dark in a threesome that included Investment Banker Cliff Roberts and Manhattan Businessman (Cluett, Peabody & Co.) Barry Leithead. Early in the evening while playing bridge, the President was called aside by Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who told him that prospects were improving for a satellite blast-off that night. During the evening the President was on the phone repeatedly, keeping up with the Explorer countdown. At 12:45 a.m. he got the final word from Hagerty, fired off a well done to Dr. Alan Waterman, director of the National Science Foundation...
...school-night date with Classmate Carol King, 16. They stopped to help. Starkweather shot both through the head with his .22 rifle, pushed their blue-jeaned bodies into an abandoned storm cellar near by. He drove up to Meyer's house, killed him with one .410-gauge shotgun blast, stuffed the body in a washhouse. Then he and Caril headed back to Lincoln, tossed Jensen's schoolbooks out the car window as they rode...