Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been sent only to Paris and Moscow. From Tito's Yugoslavia, the Paris showing brought charges of "atomic diplomacy." Cried Belgrade's Politika: a modern version of Theodore Roosevelt's well-remembered counsel, which might be paraphrased as "Speak softly but keep an atom bomb in your hand...
...Professor Simon Peter Alexandrov, one of the two official Soviet witnesses at Bikini, stepped ashore from the U.S.S. Panamint with startling news. Alexandrov (who works at the Moscow Central Institute of Research in Non-Ferrous Metals) said that his country was preparing to set off its own experimental atom bomb "some place in Russia where it would not be dangerous to people or wildlife (see below) . . . Siberia, in the mountainous area of Russia, in the Arctic or in the islands north of Canada. . . Very likely members of the United Nations will be invited-in the same proportion...
What were the Russians up to? Observers ventured three guesses: 1) the Russians were testing rocket equipment left by the Germans at Peenemünde, the now Russian-occupied V-bomb launching site (110 miles from Sweden); 2) they were trying to impress the world; 3) they were underlining, perhaps coincidentally, their suggestion that Stockholm give Moscow a one billion kronor ($278,500,000) credit, more than Sweden can afford without disrupting her economy...
...trade commissioner came to argue the merits of expanded Russo-Argentine trade. The Russian pressed his case but Perón played wary poker. "First of all I am an Argentine," he said, "but second I am an americano." "And besides," Evita broke in, "the Americans have the atomic bomb...
Last fall, Brooklyn's Branch ("The Brain") Rickey tossed a bomb into baseball and stuck his fingers in his ears. He signed up Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a Negro shortstop and onetime football star at U.C.L.A., for his Montreal farm club (TIME, Nov. 5). It was the first time a Negro had ever played Class AA ball without being passed off as a Cuban, a Mexican, or an Indian and there were a good many skeptics who said that it wouldn't work. By last week some of them would admit they were wrong: Jackie Robinson was the International...