Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweden's ingratiating young King Carl Gustaf had traveled almost halfway around the world to visit San Francisco, and while he had a blast (see PEOPLE), he was disappointed to find that the city's legendary cable cars were out of service. The buses and trolleys were not running either. All three city museums, the zoo, the municipal swimming pools and golf courses were closed. The King could not even meet Mayor George Moscone, who had been holed up in his office in city hall for two weeks-refusing to cross the picket lines that ringed the building...
Leaders of worker groups both on the main campus and the Med area spent over a week formulating responses to the Powers blast. Those responses, which appear in the most recent set of employee newsletters, attack Powers for treating District 65 as a "disembodied" entity on campus, and ignoring the fact that the newsletters are written by Harvard workers, and not by outside union organizers...
...think that he could enlist Humphrey's aid in his own crusade to halt a huge nuclear test explosion that was planned in Nevada in 1968 by the Atomic Energy Commission (see cut above left). He had some environmental worries, but his real fear was that the blast would scare off tourists. His efforts failed; the test went off on schedule. Excerpts from Hughes' memos to Maheu from...
...wrestlers, however, have Brazil's claim to normalcy. Clark Freeman, known as "The Nevada Skuzz-bomb" is a young man breaking into the West Coast conference--if man is the proper word. A victim of the aftereffects of and atomic blast at Nevada, New Mexico, Freeman's metabolism has been radically changed. He appears to the unaided eye to be composed of loose shale and flies, and is surrounded by a constant hissing noise. He is having trouble rising on the list of contenders because many of the contenders who have higher ranking than him are afraid...
...mountain resort Aley, Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt one day last week sat in his temporary headquarters, directing the siege of the nearby Christian stronghold of Kahale. Suddenly, a mortar shell whistled through the air and exploded 50 yds. away with an ear-splitting blast. Aides jumped to their feet; one suggested running for cover. "Shells like that don't do much damage," said Jumblatt calmly. He remained unruffled when an assistant rushed in to tell him that the explosion had damaged his black Mercedes. Replied he coolly: "We shouldn't park our cars over on that side of the street...