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...including Morgan the Pirate, for which he is planning to bury $10,000 under Atlantic beaches and to invite all poor slobs with shovels to hunt the treasure. Drawing on the specialties of an aircraft company and a rug-weaving firm, he will produce a flying carpet that will bombard the world with sultanic adjectives describing Aladdin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Joe Unchained | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...GWYNETH BOMBARD Springfield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...same, Henry IV is almost unthinkable without Falstaff. Whether in the bottle scenes where he swaggers like a general, or in the battle scenes where he quivers like a jelly, this thieving, braggart liar, this gorging, guzzling "huge bombard of sack" who lives on his wits and gets by on his charm so bestrides the play that the great danger is he will completely distort it; he so domineers over it on occasion as to send royalty and even history packing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play Off Broadway, Mar. 14, 1960 | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...years of secret planning, the U.S. is on the verge of developing a true "clean bomb," with enormous implications for both brush-fire war and big-war tactics. It is the neutron bomb, triggered by a fission process, topped off by a small hydrogen (fusion) explosion, designed to bombard enemy troops in a specific area with millions of fatal, invisible neutron "bullets." The neutron bomb does not damage property, scatters virtually no radioactive fallout, cannot be detected. Friendly troops could enter the area shortly after the bomb had been used. And although the Soviets, to judge from published Russian scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: High Price of Suspension | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Castro ranted on TV for four hours. "Genocide against our women and children!" he shrieked. "We give the U.S. a naval base in our country, and they give war criminals bases to bombard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: No Time for Tourists | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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