Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year term, stayed on for a second at President Eisenhower's urging. When Lemnitzer moves up, probably in late September, his successor as Army Chief of Staff will be Four-Star General George Henry Decker, 58, who is even calmer and quieter than Lemnitzer. "You could set a bomb off under his desk and he wouldn't turn a hair," a fellow officer once said. He, too, specialized in logistics during World War II, but won a Silver Star in combat in New Guinea. Army Comptroller in 1952-55 and later commander of the U.N. forces in Korea...
Communist delegations, however, have a talent for invincible insensitivity. Arriving at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, Delegate Liu announced that he brought Red China's"hearty congratulations to the Japanese people for preventing the Eisenhower war-planning visit and overthrowing the Kishi Cabinet." And at the anti-bomb conference, Liu and Japan's Red-lining Chairman Kaoru Yasui congratulated each other on "a series of victories over American imperialism" in a manner so heavy-handed that participating organizations ranging from the Japan Federation of Youth to the Federation of Housewives threatened to withdraw from the conference unless...
...Bomb Tests: Contamination without representation...
...Civil Aeronautics Board last week concluded that the National Airlines DC-6B that crashed mysteriously in North Carolina last January, killing all 34 on board, was destroyed by a bomb that went off near the seat of Julian Frank, a financially troubled Manhattan lawyer who had just taken out about $1,000,000 in insurance. But the board did not fix responsibility on Frank, and the issue is still to be determined by the FBI. In U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., the insurance companies are arguing that, since Frank committed suicide, they are absolved from having...
Still the assault boats streamed toward shore. Kilted commandos, festooned with assorted demolition charges, fanned out across the bulky concrete submarine pens. A refitted American destroyer-the old four-stacker Buchanan-crammed with explosive until it was a vast time bomb, rammed the main gate of Normandie dock, only Atlantic dry dock capable of handling the great German battleship Tirpitz. Of the 611-man assault team, only 442 survived. But St. Nazaire was shattered by blasts that went off at unexpected intervals for the next 2½ days. Normandie dock could not be repaired for the next ten years...