Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last weekend both the Secret Service and the FBI were at Cabot Hall, Radcliffe, investigating a telephoned bomb threat on the White House that had been traced to Cabot Hall...
...threat was made at 2:50 a.m. last Friday by a male, who asked to talk to the White House Secret Service and then told them he had planted a bomb in the East Room...
...observed "My mind is my own church" set the tone for it. Today, dogma is rejected largely by the young, particularly those of us who have come of age in the 1960s. It was with awe and hope that we first heard the echoes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's bomb-rocked prison. There, the 37-year-old theologian urged man to find Christ at the "center of life" by participating in the struggles of the world. This was the supreme religious act. For most, despite their imperiled souls, this was dogma enough, and a way to manifest Paul Tillich...
Died. Charles C. Lauritsen, 76, nuclear physicist who built one of the earliest atom smashers and was part of the team that developed the atomic bomb; after a long illness; in Pasadena, Calif. Working at the California Institute of Technology in 1934, Lauritsen, with his atom smasher, became the first to produce neutrons with artificially accelerated particles...
...arrived in Hanoi two days before that speech. There were six air-raid alerts during the first 24 hours. When Collingwood refused to go to the bomb shelters, he reports, "their little faces fell." He explained: "Look, you may not have any confidence in U.S. assurances that it will not hit population centers, but I do." Collingwood had no difficulties with the three bureaucrats assigned to escort him, but the North Vietnamese did hand-pick his cameraman, French Freelancer Roger Pic, who had done several sympathetic films. Collingwood also notes that "naturally, they took me to bomb sites" and trotted...