Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teachers. David's mother was an actress, and his father was a radio and TV actor who worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Soupy Sales and appeared for a decade as Santa in the Detroit Thanksgiving parade. "We started to worry about his health after there was a bomb threat on his sleigh," David remembers. "Only in Detroit would they want to kill Santa Claus...
...course in the politics of southern Africa (professor: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker), a tutorial on neoconservative thought (professor: Irving Kristol of the American Enterprise Institute), and a briefing on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) by Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb. And all for just one pupil: Vice President J. Danforth Quayle...
...both knowledge and reading. Such megasubjects as science, art, mythology and civilization, as well as the hot and cold wars of the 20th century, have been creditably presented in public-TV documentaries, usually with what are called in the trade "book tie-ins." Now the history of the Bomb is traced in a masterly 13-part PBS series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, and in a comprehensive, highly readable companion book of the same title (Knopf; $22.95). The book, published last week, is by John Newhouse, a veteran diplomatic historian who writes for The New Yorker...
Pornography protestors bomb the site of shut-down Maven's Deli, owned by Penthouse columnist and Harvard civil libertarian Alan M. Dershowitz. They are featured on Nightline when Dershowitz sues them for $21,000 in leftover pastrami costs. But he reminds Ted Koppel, "I still defend their right to free expression...
According to Morse, yesterday's scare differs from many bomb threats at Harvard, which usually take place in response to demonstrations and controversies on campus. "This threat doesn't seem connected to any specific cause, but reading period tends to bring a few extra [threats]," he said...