Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That horrible smell turned out to be issuing from two sulphur bombs, commonly known as stink bombs, planted in Langdell earlier that evening by person or persons unknown. Two Circulation Desk attendants, Lawrence Corbett and Alfrado Ochoa, followed their noses and found a shoebox containing one bomb outside the door of the south entrance to the Reading Room. Soon afterwards, an unidentified law student discovered the second in a phone booth at the south stairwell in the basement...
Several factors had gone into President Johnson's earlier decision to order the pause. The U.S. had already blasted just about every worthwhile military target south of the populous Hanoi-Haiphong complex, and was running out of bridges and barracks to bomb. The lull gave U.S. reconnaissance planes a chance to assess the damage and size up new targets-and according to Communist broadcasts, the recon planes were busy indeed, some of them probing points only twelve miles from Hanoi. Perhaps most important, the lull gave Johnson a chance to show such critics as Canada's Prime Minister...
...officials let Russian diplomats in Washington know. The French, British and Canadians-all of whom have pipelines to Hanoi-were informed. Each was asked to pass on the message that any hostile action by the Viet Cong during the lull would prompt the U.S. to double its bomb loads if and when the raids resumed. North Viet Nam brusquely condemned the lull as a "U.S. swindle" and "a deceitful maneuver designed to pave the way for new U.S. acts...
...board of governors is to "get a report." After last fall's student disorders at the University of California, the regents commissioned not one but two reports. The first, made last month by Regent Theodore Meyer and urging tightened student discipline, was a bit of a bomb; nobody objected violently or approved heartily. The second, released last week by investigators under Regent William Forbes, was a bit of a bombshell; it laid the university's troubles mostly on the regents and the administration and let the students off with a light knuckle-rapping...
...year for more than 40 years, to bring forth a race of poems. The worst of them are idiot brainchildren afflicted with echolalia; the best of them are fierce and radiant creatures of the metaphysical imagination. In Dirge for the New Sunrise, dated the day the bomb fell on Hiroshima, Dame Edith writes in her ultimate Miltonic manner...