Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the U.S. exploded a nuclear bomb high over the Pacific early this summer, famed Physicist James Van Allen predicted that the blast would create a globe-girdling belt of dangerous radiation. Last week data from orbiting injun I satellite proved him correct. The new belt is 200 to 500 miles high, just a little closer to earth than the permanent belt named after Discoverer Van Allen. But its intensity is waning and by the and of a year it will be almost undetectable...
...visited. Cracked one of the guests in the diamond horseshoe circle, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson: "The pictures of dying America, I suppose." ∙ ∙ ∙ "There is beauty even in explosions," intoned flamboyant Jewelry Designer Roger King, 26, whose flashy $3,400 brooch suggesting an A-bomb blast (mushrooms of diamonds rising from a ruby earth) won Britain's "Jewel of the Year" award. Then glaring out at of the the audience in a posh London showroom where his nuclear nugget was on display, King dropped another wee bomb by deploring "the tendency of upper-class...
...dark night last September, Charles de Gaulle's black Citroen was speeding toward his country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises when suddenly flames erupted in the car's path. Miraculously, the plastic bomb that had been planted beside the lonely road did not explode. Shaken but unhurt, De Gaulle murmured: "Just a joke in bad taste." Last week the punch line of the joke was delivered in a drab courthouse at Troyes, 90 miles from Paris, where the S.A.O. terrorists who had plotted to assassinate France's President stood trial...
...Jean-Marc Rouviere, 25, had a father and mother who were both sentenced to death as collaborators after World War II. He won three military citations in Algeria, built the bomb meant to kill De Gaulle. (It failed to explode only because of faulty soldering...
...beyond that, Naked City is not just some fuzz bomb full of nervous motion and synthetic sentiment. It is a remarkably good television show, skillfully written by various hands. Its cool and objective approach derives from Mark Hellinger's 1948 movie. The Naked City (Hellinger's widow has collected more than $80,000 in royalties so far). Whether it is telling the story of a painter who murders his wife or a cop having a nervous breakdown, its scripts are full of insight and nicely caught dialogue. The plots are built, not boiled. And it has won three...