Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elephant Gun. Last week, as the Viet Cong again dropped mortar shells on several U.S. Marine cantonments in the perimeter around Danang, the President and his advisers were considering a problem that was a corollary to the decision to resume bombing. How heavily should U.S. war planes bomb the North? At the same level as before? More intensively? Initially, at least, the Administration plans to follow roughly the same bombing tactics as before. Nonetheless, commanders in the field are virtually unanimous in urging a more intensified, selective pattern. None suggest bombing the Hanoi-Haiphong population centers. But they point...
...Madrid the joke was that the farmers of Almeria were no longer growing tomatoes but, rather, mushrooms. Another yuk had it that residents of the Mediterranean coast near Almeria had renamed their region "Costa Boom." It was something to laugh about all right-a missing American H-bomb...
Object of an extensive search was one of four hydrogen bombs-each, if detonated, capable of wiping out a city-that fell from a U.S. Air Force B-52 when it collided with a refueling tanker over Spain's coast on Jan. 17. Three of the bombs landed on Spanish soil and were readily recovered. The fourth fell into the sea just short of Almeria. Fishermen quickly rescued the bomber's four survivors but not the bomb. Some 2,000 American servicemen from Spanish bases undertook the search. To be sure, none of the deadly, multimegaton nuclear-bomb...
...Navy minesweeper located what was thought to be the missing bomb 1,200 ft. under water. Though frogmen were readily available, the bomb lay far below the depth at which SPECTRE's flippered villains so easily recovered the "Thunderball" of James Bond's latest cinematic adventure. The real thing was far harder to lift. In order to recover the bomb, American officials called on devices that even Ian Fleming had never conceived: the whale-shaped Aluminaut (TIME, Sept. 11, 1964), a 51-ft., three-man sub devised by General Dynamics Corp. to probe 17,000 ft. beneath...
...silhouette on stage. A tall, hulking figure with a luxuriant growth of swept-winged black hair, he almost leaps off the bench to hammer home a fistful of crashing chords. In more reflective moods, he coaxes the music along with the suspenseful air of a man defusing a time bomb, then counterattacks with a dazzling flurry of runs and leaping crescendoes. The black dragon never has a chance...