Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bombed Bus. "I could tell the difference when we crossed the state line into Alabama." recalls Negro Freedom Rider Charles Person, 18. "The atmosphere was tense." Outside Anniston, the first stop in Alabama, whites who had been pursuing in cars caught up with the Freedom Riders. An incendiary bomb was hurled through a broken window, setting the bus afire. "The bus soon filled with black, acrid smoke," recalls Freedom Rider Bigelow. "We had to get out somehow-there was no chance at all of surviving inside." The waiting toughs beat up some of the Freedom Riders who emerged first...
Smith helped smooth the integration of Nashville's public schools, which had got off to a rock-throwing, bomb-hurling start. Today, some 180 Negro students attend nine formerly all-white schools, and the number increases-almost unnoticed-each year. Again, last year, when Nashville's lunch-counter sit-ins caused violence, it was Smith who led Negro negotiations with white merchants. He had a powerful lever. Says a department-store official of the lunch-counter settlement that resulted: "Sure, our lunch-counter business has dropped slightly from what it used to be. But it's nothing...
Lonely little Kwajalein Island, a 600-acre islet in the central Pacific, has known more than its share of excitement. World War II bombing raids left it almost bare of vegetation. In 1954 it was the first refuge of 82 inhabitants of nearby Rongelap, who were evacuated, their hair falling out in patches, after an H-bomb test had sprinkled their home with radioactive residue. When the radioactivity on Rongelap died down, the refugees returned and Kwajalein quieted down. But last week it was busier than ever as a task force prepared to test the Nike Zeus, the U.S. Army...
...record an aerial dogfight between two World War I relics, the crash of a sprung gallows trap, the whack of a guillotine blade against the block. And his enduring dream is to catch on his own high-fidelity equipment the mid-century's ultimate sound-an exploding hydrogen bomb...
...surface trouble is that life seems like a chronic sickness, his fear is of defeat by "everydayness." Life around him seems fat. genial, kindly-and stupid. "Men are dead, dead, dead; and the malaise has settled like a fallout and what people really fear is not that the bomb will fall but that the bomb will not fall . . ." Comfortable, well-heeled Binx habitually sleeps with his secretaries and finds that the movies are a deeper reality than the life around him. But sex and movies are not enough, and always vaguely he is engaged in a search for some deeper...