Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Bloom. The response was an outburst of fury unparalleled since the Hungarian revolt itself. Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella withdrew his nation's Minister to Budapest, refused to consent to the appointment of a new Hungarian Minister to Rome. In Montevideo students hurled a gasoline bomb at the Soviet embassy, and Russian missions in New Zealand, Bonn, Istanbul and Copenhagen were all stoned. (As a countermeasure, the Russians permitted a carefully stage-managed crowd to break seven windows in the Danish embassy in Moscow...
...shelter accommodates 5,500 people under war conditions. It has a peacetime use as well, housing a garage, workshops, a shooting range, a 140-seat movie theater, and study rooms and a gymnasium for a girls' school on top of the hill. ¶ In Stockholm the Katarinaberget bomb shelter holds 20,000 people, and is the world's largest. The Swedes have also put this shelter to revenue-producing peacetime use. Currently leased to an oil company, Katarinaberget has room for 550 parked cars, a service station, a drive-in bank. A roof of granite more than...
...September 1949 spotted the first Communist atomic blast, put the free world on guard. In October 1949, against the objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended the development of the U.S. hydrogen bomb. He convinced AECommissioner Gordon Dean, while heavy support piled in from Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the Pentagon. After four agonizing months, on Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman announced that he had ordered work on the H-bomb begun. Lewis Strauss's key contributions as Dwight Eisenhower...
York Times, whose editorial board had long seen more in Lewis Strauss than its Washington reporters, hurled forth a weighty "WELL DONE! ... It is terrifying to think what the Soviets might have done with the hydrogen bomb if they had been the first to develop...
...roommates got thrown out for heaving a stink bomb at a freshman dance, and the third left because he couldn't stand it one minute longer. I remained by the skin of my teeth." Despite such candid appraisal of his needy alma mater by this lone survivor, the College's intercontinental radio commercial--the feature event of Harvard's Day--won almost universal acclaim from those who are supposed to know. Variety, the show business journal, though that the broadcast "made the Harvard eggheads sound as provocative as peelers...