Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Midsummer Night's Dream in near-perfect security, the Foreign Office had bought up all 1,100 tickets to the Aldwych theater, distributed them to a select audience that included lead ers of London's Greek community. Shortly before curtain time, a false report that a bomb had been planted in the theater led to the additional spectacle of police in evening clothes combing the royal box with a mine detector...
Almost from the moment that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, physicists and businessmen have been promising that peaceful and cheap nuclear electricity was just around the corner. The corner has been tough to turn. Early estimates of cost and efficiency were overly optimistic; private utilities were wary in spite of $1.3 billion spent on AEC research and generous Government fuel-cost waivers and reimbursements for design work. But now the corner has been rounded, and commercial nuclear power has gone critical...
...Masaru Ibuka, 55, an engineer, plans to double production by late autumn and points out that he has overcome hurdles before. After spending the war trying to concoct a heat-ray gun for the Japanese armed forces, Ibuka, along with Morita, assembled $530 and eight displaced technicians in a bomb-gutted department store. They started making radio gear...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Reunion with bomber group that dropped the atom bomb over Hiroshima. Repeat...
...like a kite, Mastroianni wakes up in a cluttered bedroom at a sleazy spa. Circling sycophants plague him with questions about the movie, tiresome actresses whine that they cannot possibly go before the cameras, reporters pepper him with questions ("Are you a Communist? Are you against the A-bomb...