Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not seriously expect to win a seat in the Senate, but neither is he running just for fun. To get on the ballot at all, he had to collect at least 72,500 petition signatures. His devoted band of followers, largely made up of pacifists and ban-the-bomb marchers, actually gathered 117,636-a remarkable feat. He has spent $30,000 on his campaign, piled up debts of $12,000. What is he trying to accomplish? He wants to get a serious public hearing for his ideas on disarmament and disengagement. He also wants to prove that...
...years of rule, the Communists had never before closed the frontier with Hong Kong. Last week they were growing ever more edgy-with good reason. In the past month seven bombs, presumably planted by Nationalist underground agents, have killed five people and wounded 40 others inside Red China. The terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind...
They were even ordered to check the two-pound parcels of food that pour into the hungry mainland at the rate of more than 1,000,000 a month. Day after the explosion that sealed the border, a bomb was found in a food parcel...
When assassins tried to kill Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah with a bomb in the border village of Kulungugu last month, they almost got their man. Though it was officially denied that he had been hurt, Osagyefo (Redeemer) was wounded in the right shoulder, spent a week in the hospital wrestling with a high fever and an even nastier set of suspicions...
More Than a Fuzz Bomb. Now going into its fourth season, Naked City has the craziest production routine in show business. It is written in Hollywood, and scripts are flown to New York, sometimes a page or two at a time-while the production crew waits to find out what happens next. One man spends most of his time looking for locations that fit the scenes, such as a tenement having an open stairwell with wood banisters (for a breakaway fight scene). Another fulltime employee works overtime getting permits from city agencies, businesses and individuals. Exposed film is flown back...