Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently, Algeria's remote Sahara has been the test site for France's fledgling atomic program. With the agreement under which France uses the site about to run out and Africans, in general, resentful of the French tests, Charles de Gaulle had to find another place to blast. The one he chose is about as far from population centers as possible. It is Mururoa atoll, 750 miles southeast of Tahiti in the South Pacific...
...measure of national interest in this device is a sleeper bestseller titled How to Avoid Probate (Crown; $4.95). Written by Norman F. Dacey, who calls himself "America's best-known estate planner," the hefty paperback consists of a 50-page blast at lawyers and 300 pages of assorted forms that readers are urged to use in setting up revocable living trusts. In Dacey's version, a man puts most of his estate into life insurance, makes a bank trustee but directs the bank to invest the estate in a mutual fund. While the bank pays his heirs...
...fact, is a coldly calculated exercise in group seduction. Every movement, every lighting change is as carefully mapped out as a market-research study and a subliminal soft-sell. There is, for instance, the old "arctic gust" routine, whereby the air conditioning in a club is turned up full blast a few minutes before showtime. The hapless audience, unaware of what hit it, naturally attributes the sudden lift in spirits to the personality of the performer. And when it comes time for the singer's exit, the orchestra breaks into a fast "bright four" tempo that compels the listeners...
...following night, Calvert drove up for a chat with Smedley at Smedley's 17th century, thatched country cottage 40 miles north of London. At 2:40 a.m., Smedley summoned police. There lay Calvert, dead of a 12-gauge-shotgun blast in the chest. Police arrested Smed ley, who, though admitting the raid, pleaded innocent to the murder...
Eight million people were invited to the blast; mercifully, only 35,000 of them could make it. Still, it was quite a party on Central Park Mall when New York City turned out for the season's first Guggenheim Memorial Concert. The band tooted out such swinging numbers as The New York Light Guards Quickstep and The New York Hippodrome March for the turn-of-the-century stomp. Then, too, there was a catchy little act by a couple of beblaz-ered vaudevillians, Mayor John Lindsay and Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving, who went around tipping boater and bowler...