Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...posed no threat. Straight ahead the commons was almost empty. The closest student on the right seems to have been at least 20 yards away." Yet at the top of the hill the Guardsmen turned, then fired 55 M-l rifle bullets, five pistol shots and one shotgun blast in 13 seconds. The closest wounded student fell 71 ft. from the firing squad; the nearest dead youth was 265 ft. away, nearly the length of a football field...
...Stanford blast, occurring at 3:54 a.m., came just hours after rifle shots had punctured two electric transformers at the Stanford central power station. According to a Stanford Daily News reporter, the resultant leakage would have caused a mild explosion had it not been discovered quickly...
Police are now questioning several of those who were in the vicinity of the fire around the time of the blast. The state fire marshal and the state chemist are continuing their investigation in cooperation with the Medford Fire Department...
Police have found no definite leads in connection with the firebombing, which destroyed two offices, damaged two others and caused an estimated $75,000 damage. No one was injured in the blast...
...kind of Molotoy cocktail may have been used for the blast. Tufts security chief Herbert Voye said he believes the bomb had chemicals to explode on impact rather than by a lighted wick...