Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murdered Medgar. Surprisingly, though these hostile organizations both have strong followings in the old riverfront town (pop. 12,000 whites, 11,000 Negroes), they managed to coexist-until six weeks ago. Then, when the president of the town's N.A.A.C.P. chapter was cruelly maimed by a booby-trap bomb wired to his automobile accelerator, Natchez Negroes could no longer contain their anger. Week by week, as bitter anti-Klan demonstrations have expanded to protest other longstanding Negro grievances, Natchez has inched toward the flash point...
General Leslie R. Groves, head of the wartime Manhattan Project that produced the bomb, disclosed that, on the contrary, President Roosevelt was "perfectly prepared" to change plans and order a nuclear attack on Germany...
Along Fifth Avenue, where hundreds of thousands of spectators were expected, store windows were boarded up to prevent breakage. All week bomb experts sifted through every nook and cranny of the places that Pope Paul would enter: the U.N. building, St. Patrick's Cathedral; Yankee Stadium, where he would celebrate a Mass of Peace; the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where he would meet with President Johnson; the Vatican Pavilion at the World's Fair. A heavy guard including cops and priests was set up at key points a full day before his appearance...
Rumors flew that Sukarno was dead, seriously ill, in prison or in flight. But Bung Karno has spent a lifetime showing the world how to be a survivor. He has nimbly escaped innumerable assassination attempts by bomb and bullet, grenade and jet fighter. Insurrections against him constantly erupt in the Outer Islands only to be put down or neutralized. What made last week's coups different was that leaders of both the first coup and the one that followed insisted loudly that they were defending Sukarno against the plots of others...
...Sock & a Bomb. Obviously Hayes is a quick study. From End Coach Red Hickey, he has already learned that his method of pass receiving was wrong. "I used to jump and catch the ball at my stomach," he says. "Mr. Hickey taught me that I gotta catch the ball on the run, or the defensive backs are gonna smack me good." From the Cowboys' all-pro end, Frank Clarke, Hayes has learned the proper way to catch "the bomb"-the high pass. "I used to catch it from the front, with my thumbs pointed together. Frank taught...