Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...type that is scheduled to launch this week's eight-day Gemini mission, remained in place as 55 civilian workmen swarmed up and down the silo's nine levels. "Something Wrong?" Some workers were still returning from lunch one day last week when there was a blast and a flash of flame. "The lights went out," recalls Gary Lay, 18, who was cleaning up debris on the second level. "Everybody was hollering, 'Let's get out of here!' I tried to go down a ladder, but it was jammed up with men. So I went...
Sealed Lid. There was nothing to be done. For hours after the blast, smoke made it impossible for rescue teams to search the silo. The explosion had cut off the power, making it impossible to open the 700-ton steel and concrete lid that seals the silo airtight. As flames devoured what little oxygen there was, several men tried to crawl into air-conditioning ducts. The elevator was stalled for lack of power, and the only way up was a single ladder. Trapped workmen piled onto it in panic, and two wedged themselves hopelessly together in one narrow section...
...interview was judged to be a phony. Last June, upon learning that Der Stern was about to run some striking photos of a developing embryo taken by Swedish Photographer Lennart Nilsson (that also ran in LIFE), Revue faked an embryo sequence of its own. It drew a blast from Stern: "They borrowed textbook photos, and an institute lent them a fetus preserved in alcohol, and-the pen hesitates to put it down-the whole thing was photographed in a water-filled prophylactic." Lamented Revue's retiring Publisher Helmut Kindler: "This German illustrated business is murder ous. They tell...
...letter for Lyndon Johnson. If U.S. officials were hoping for news of an important development, however, they were in for a letdown. Nkrumah, who expects to visit Hanoi soon, was chiefly interested in making sure that U.S. bombers would not turn his arrival into the wrong kind of reception blast. Patiently, L.B.J. assured the Ghanaians that "not a bomb has fallen" on Hanoi, but that the U.S. would not stop its bombing of other parts of North Viet...
...Graves decision. To rule out handwriting as evidence, they say, implies a threat to the legality of fingerprints, photographs and police lineups. The Graves decision will be appealed to the California Supreme Court, which handed down the Dorado decision that started all the commotion. Along with an editorial blast at Dorado, the San Francisco Examiner last week ran a cartoon reducing the decision to its ultimate absurdity: a lawyer's claim that his client should be shielded even from the incriminating implications of a court appearance...