Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fund for the Republic. A bristly liberal, who is the son of Hugh J. Ferry, onetime board chairman of Packard Motor Car Co., "Ping" Ferry,* an ex-newsman, ex-publicity man and former labor union official, got up before the Western states Democratic conference in Seattle to blast what he called some of the myths of modern America. Among the myths, said Ferry, was the one that pictured Communists as "nine feet tall, craftier than Satan, the most expert managers the world has ever seen, not human beings like ourselves but a race apart, determined...
...first cosmonaut to blast off was Major Andrian Grigorievich Nikolaev, 32, a country boy from the Volga valley who had been the standby for both Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov on their previous orbital flights. Soon after he was aloft in his spaceship Vostok III, Nikolaev, or "Falcon," as he called himself during radio transmission to the earth, was in touch with Soviet tracking stations and trawlers at sea packed with electronic gear, including some close by the U.S. east coast. U.S. and other Western radio monitors heard Nikolaev's voice loud and clear. Every 88 minutes, Vostok...
...Soviets announced in July that they would open a new round of nuclear tests on Aug. 5 in the Arctic testing ground of Novaya Zemlya. Before that, the last reported Russian blast took place in November 1961. It was with more than passing curiosity, therefore, that Western correspondents in Moscow last week came upon a photograph that appeared in the military newspaper Red Star on Aug. 3-two days before the new series began. It showed Russian tanks lumbering across a rolling landscape; there in the background was the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. The caption said the picture...
...this a Soviet bomb blast that the West had not detected or announced? And one set off with manned tanks dangerously near? Probably not. Closer examination of the photograph suggested an entirely different explanation: the mushroom cloud seemed simply to have been painted or superimposed onto a picture of routine tank maneuvers. If so, Red Star's caption writer is clearly a man of imagination. His dramatic description of the scene began, "A mighty atom explosion neutralized the resistance of the enemy. Tank units moved swiftly forward at highest speed carrying out the orders of the commanders...
...risky enough to blast a sports car along a track at speeds up to 180 m.p.h. But in a boat, it borders on the suicidal. Powered by supercharged 2,000-h.p. engines, the big, unlimited-class hydroplanes just about fly-touching the water only with the propeller and two sponsons each the size of a water ski. A patch of rough water can send a boat somersaulting to destruction, and woe to the hapless driver who gets caught behind a rival's arcing 30-ft.-high rooster-tail wake. Last week, as 200,000 boat-racing buffs lined...