Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White-thatched Judge Cox, a native Mississippian and confirmed segregationist, conducted the trial with scrupulous fairness. Reacting angrily to a bomb threat-explosives had been stolen from a Meridian construction company the week before-the judge bundled Price and convicted Defendant Alton Wayne Roberts off to jail without bond. "I'm not going to let any wild man loose on a civilized society," he lectured Roberts. Roberts, a swarthy, former nightclub bouncer, had said earlier that the judge had given a "dynamite charge" to the jury. "Well," Roberts was overheard telling Price, "we've got the dynamite...
...proscribed list two weeks ago. One reason U.S. planners are anxious to destroy the helicopters is that they could be used to transport mobile SAM antiaircraft missiles into positions near the DMZ. Once in place, the SAMS could zero in on the big and unmaneuverable B-52s, whose huge bomb loads have so effectively broken up North Vietnamese troop concentrations around Con Thien...
...slipped noticeably. Surprisingly enough, one of the most ubiquitous campus speakers among show business personalities is television's square old M.C., Art Linkletter, who has hit 20 campuses in the past two years, drew 3,500 University of Minnesota students to a talk on "The Pill and the Bomb" last February, and starts a tour of the Ivy League circuit this week...
Some papers have become disillusioned with the bombing, and urge that it be stopped to give negotiations a chance to get started. "Evidence continues to mount," noted the Atlanta Journal, "that the bombing does not now do, and never has done, what its strongest advocates have argued it might do. Bombings have been a serious inconvenience for North Viet Nam's efforts in the South, but virtually every reliable observer has reported that they also have been a mighty factor in building morale there." It is possible, the Journal granted, for the U.S. to bomb North Viet...
Nosy Network. Last week a kind of nosy network was instituted, in which 14 stations agreed to ask the same question and compile their answers. Of the 42,000 viewers who replied to the first question, ("Should the U.S. stop bomb ing North Viet Nam immediately?"), 62% voted...