Word: blew
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...sports buff and once a member of a Navy Officers' Candidate School swimming team that he calls "the worst," did the main reporting on the Olympic action, with assistance from Stringer Bill Carroll on the gymnastics events. Ottawa Bureau Chief John Scott covered the political storms that blew up. Most of the color photographs accompanying the cover story were taken by John Zimmerman, a veteran of seven Olympics, and Rich Clarkson, for whom this was the third time around. In New York, Assistant Managing Editor Ray Cave oversaw the story, which was researched by Alexandra Rich...
...like." If Jimmy is elected and they move to Washington, she said, they would put their daughter Amy, 8, in the public school system, which is almost entirely black, if "the security thing can be worked out." Said Mary Hurtig, a Udall delegate from Philadelphia: "That really blew my mind. Wow! The President's little girl in a city public school. What a fine example...
...fire in the sky," says Plimpton, "but I love the damn things." One thing he will not try during his Bicentennial bang is another "fat man," a two-ton monster mortar that Plimpton hoped would put him in the Guinness Book of World Records. When tested this winter, it blew up on the ground. "A very discouraging business," recalls Plimpton. "And it created an enormous man-made lake...
...card-carrying member of the President's coterie. But he did have to work in the White House prior to June 17, 1972, and remain there through the disclosure of the Nixon tapes. Who else fills the bill as well as Alexander Butterfield, the man who blew the whistle on Nixon's tapes in the first place...
...most recent incident occurred on April 12, when a bomb blew out windows in the building housing the Georgian Council of Ministers. Another explosion at an aircraft factory last fall injured two guards. A fire gutted the city's major children's store on the eve of the 25th Communist Party Congress last February, and other arson attacks have damaged the opera house, two film studios, a sports complex and the laboratory of Tbilisi's Agricultural Institute. The incidents, complained the Georgian party's Central Committee, were the work of "carriers of the evils...