Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mafia gangsters in 1968 for offering kickbacks in return for Teamster loans. Three years later, the indictment was dismissed for lack of evidence. As it happened, a crucial Government witness turned up dead-floating in his boat down a river, the back of his head removed by a shotgun blast. "Nick has always conducted himself like a real gentleman," says McMahon, explaining their friendship. Did Ed know of Nick's association with the Mafia? "Hell, they're everywhere. There isn't any way you can be in show business without knowing some of them...
...tracts in Wyoming, for example, the oil will most likely be boiled out of the rock in situ-underground. Occidental Petroleum Co., one of the many U.S. oil companies that lease private oil-shale lands, has developed such a process. Occidental's technique is to blast a chamber inside the oil-bearing rock, inject natural gas into it and then set it afire. The subterranean conflagration would cause the rock to yield its oil, which would then be brought to the surface via special wells. The cost is estimated at slightly more than...
...Cross anticipates public outcry against "Weapons that May Cause Unnecessary Suffering or Have Indiscriminate Effects" (available for Swiss Francs from 7 Ave, de la Paix, Ch-1211 Geneva). The report discusses the historical and legal background, the military uses and the medical effects of weapons including small-calibre projectiles, blast and fragmentation weapons, time-delay weapons, incendiary weapons and weapons which could be developed in the near future...
With roughly 15 minutes left in the half the deadlock was broken. After a cornerkick by Crimson team captain Lyman Bullard the ball deflected off a pile of players around the goal mouth. The ball came rolling out to Stuart Jones. "I cracked it," Jones said later. Jones' blast bounced off the Yale goal tender's chest and went into the corner of the goal to give the Harvard squad a 2-1 lead they never relinquished...
...last spring, when the band appeared at an MIT Budweiser Beer Blast, Sha Na Na's performance had declined into a slick, mechanical facsimile of its former self. The choreography, once supple and evocative, had become stilted and sticklike. The songs, once emotional and exciting, seemed rushed and dispassionate. The group's enthusiasm seemed dulled...