Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richest Woman." Piecing together the fragments of a National Airlines DC-6B that crashed last fortnight, killing 34, in North Carolina (TIME, Jan. 18), Civil Aeronautics Board investigators found strong evidence indicating a bomb explosion inside the plane. The wreckage showed that an 8-ft. section near a forward washroom had been blasted outward, as if by an explosion within the plane. A small blue handbag, its bottom blown out, was found near the crash scene. Searching through the passenger list for a possible suspect, the probers turned up the name of one Julian Andrew Frank...
...have today in the hatching stage is even more formidable. The weapon, which is being developed and is, as they say, in the portfolio of our scientists and designers, is a fantastic weapon." (U.S. Atomic Physicist Ralph E. Lapp guessed that the Russians might be planning an H-bomb to orbit the earth indefinitely, ready on signal to plunge down on any terrestrial target...
Kishi's diehard opponents protest that the treaty revision commits Japan to support all U.S. moves in the Pacific and may therefore "attract the lightning" of a Communist H-bomb attack. There are U.S. reservations about the treaty as well; many Pentagon staff officers complain that it gives Japan what amounts to a veto over the movement of U.S. troops on the perimeter of the Asian mainland...
...secret police, and devoted himself to writing a long defense of his position that no newspaper dared print. After his suburban house was burned down in an air raid, Kishi and his wife and two children went back to Yamaguchi. He was lying sick in bed when the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima, only 70 miles away...
...early-morning (8 o'clock) freshman course, catalogued simply as: "Physics 10. Descriptive introduction to physics." Limerick-wielder, parablist and reason for the rush: the lecturer in Physics 10 this spring, Dr. Edward Teller. The brilliant theoretical physicist credited with a major role in perfecting the H-bomb. Teller, in a series of appearances since 1955 on San Francisco's prizewinning ETV Station KQED, has proved a master at lighting up the dark corners of physics for laymen. Although on leave from the university (he is boss of the AEC-University of California's Radiation Laboratory...