Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presidents usually were isolated, distrusted and ignored. In his memoirs now being published in LIFE, Harry Truman admits that he was appallingly uninformed when Franklin Roosevelt's death thrust him into the President's office. He did not even know that the U.S. was building an atomic bomb, which was then almost ready to use. As Vice President, Truman was inclined to look upon himself as a member of the legislative branch, who could not expect to share the confidences of the President. Explains Truman: "The President, by necessity, builds his own staff, and the Vice President remains...
Council candidates and Cambridge editor of the Boston Record American Edward M. Martin wants to build a combination bomb shelter-parking garage under Cambridge Common...
Funds are sparse at City Hall for construction of any parking facilities around the Square, and no one there is looking very hard to find any. Martin, in his campaign platform, advocates seeking federal funds to build a bomb shelter under the Cambridge Common. Once safely nestled near the bowels of Radcliffe's downtown campus, Martin would then slyly convert the shelter into a parking garage...
...Scene I. Tempers simmered on all sides-in Turkey, in Greece and on Cyprus. A small bomb exploded in the Turkish consulate in Salonika and triggered wholesale riots against Greek minorities in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara (TIME, Sept. 19). At first, under martial law and strict censorship, much of the story of the riots' nature was suppressed by the government of Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes, who has a supposedly democratic regime but cracks down on free speech and free press with totalitarian ease. But by last week, from piecemeal reports, diplomatic dispatches and the tales of travelers from Turkey...
Violent Saturday. Three thugs rob a bank in a picture as simple and as nerve-racking as a bomb; with Victor Mature, Ernest Borgnine (TIME...