Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes without incident were lunch counters in seven variety and 23 drugstores. Also, six Negro students from Fisk University were served at Nashville's Greyhound bus terminal restaurant where, only two weeks before, 56 students had been arrested for refusing to leave while police searched for a reported bomb...
Theory. The possibility that the Tell City crash was caused by air turbulence and metal fatigue was a likely starting theory, but so was another one-that of another bomb explosion like the one that brought down a National Airlines DC-6B in North Carolina ten weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 18). Said CAB Safety Investigation Chief Philip Goldstein at week's end: "The structure was subjected to forces greater than it was designed for. We have definite evidence of a wing failure. Why this wing failure, I don't know...
...though the U.S. has long opposed any test ban that cannot be supervised, Brit ain is strongly in favor of compromise on small underground tests. "An important statement, which will be studied care fully," commented U.S. spokesmen (it was also embarrassing: the U.S. intends to explode an underground test bomb in New Mexico next January, its first since the Big Three agreed to stop testing temporarily 17 months...
...Negroes surged through downtown variety, drug and department stores, left a wake of closed counters and pushed on to the Greyhound and Trailways bus terminals. Sixty-four Negro students were arrested, most of them for refusing to leave the Greyhound lunch counter while police searched for a reported bomb. Charged with violation of the city code, they at first declined to post $50 bonds, said in a statement, "We cannot find it in our hearts to pay fines that would support injustice and immoral practices." Later the students changed their minds, were released pending trial this week...
...alert crew that he relieved, and received the Positive Control envelope (containing Fail Safe procedures, codes, frequencies) and the black combat data box (target information, maps, radar photos). Signing for it in the presence of a supervising officer, Bulli, 37, now legally assumed responsibility for the thermonuclear bomb in the bay. The spring was drawn: Plane 264 was ready to roll, had a full load of fuel and a multimegaton bomb aboard that is equal in force to ten Atlas ICBMs, or to the sum of all the bombs dropped on Europe by all the Allied planes in World...