Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last straw. The U.S. Government announced that not only would it continue its aerial reconnaissance flights until it had proof that a military buildup had stopped, but that it would defend the flights if necessary. If Castro shoots down a U.S. aircraft, the U.S. is prepared to 1) bomb certain Cuban antiaircraft installations already targeted for U.S. air strikes, and 2) bomb the Il-28s now crated or semiassembled at San Julian airfield in western Cuba...
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach flew to Oxford to plead with university administrators to get tough with unruly students. On Halloween, after a soldier had been hurt by a cherry bomb that exploded near his face, faculty members for the first time helped break up milling students, although their pleas did not increase respect for the troops. Shouted Student Housing Director Binford Nash: "They are trigger happy, and they will shoot. So for the sake of your mothers, go back to your rooms." University officials and M.P.s searched student rooms, turned up a startling array of weapons...
...longtime students of Soviet politics doubt this. They believe that there is still something like collective leadership in Russia, hence that Khrushchev may have been egged on by militarists-or for that matter, urged to be careful by the cautious. Certainly the man who has exploded a 50-megaton bomb in a test over the Arctic, might, by ordinary standards, be considered a hard-liner himself. On balance, there is reason to assume that Khrushchev was behind the Cuban project from start to finish...
...near the footlights pedaling air in a setting-up exercise. Suddenly a man in the first row stood up and whispered wickedly, "I have something for you," then heaved the something on the stage and scooted out a side exit. Carroll shrieked in terror, thinking maybe it was a bomb. But it was only paper-a summons ordering her to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court to answer a $66,377.50 lawsuit filed by Warner Brothers over a contract squabble. "I feel this is one of the most insensitive things I've ever heard of done to an actress," huffed...
...nine months ago. Canadian Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield was flown in to join physicians from Russia, France and Czechoslovakia in the effort to keep Landau alive. For the Soviets hardly needed the Nobel committee to tell them the value of the man who not only helped make their first atom bomb, but has been an important part of the growing Russian space effort...