Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judging from your cover, with pictures of Kosygin, Brezhnev, Wilson, Johnson, and the bomb in the background [Oct. 23], I would guess that you had a few problems in trying to decide which the most significant news story of the week was. At any rate, you have my sympathy for the long hours and white hairs this past frantic week must have caused you. Your reporting was fine...
...offered any solution to the increasing danger posed by Red China's belligerence. Now that Red China has exploded an atomic device and will soon be capable of delivering it, hadn't we better start a program of preventive medicine? Or do we just wait for the bomb to drop on us, smug in the knowledge that it will probably be smaller than ours...
Fail Safe is too absurd to be realistic, and too simple minded to be a commentary on world politics. Its only traces of realism are recognizable titles and place names, like President, 20 megaton bomb, and Moscow. The story would have lost all its impact if a fictitious city instead of New York had been destroyed. Perhaps a bombing of Hollywood would have been more appropriate...
...attack, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination-and it usually takes days or even weeks to regain its equilibrium. Last week certainly produced enough news to unsettle Wall Street, but this time the market's reaction was different. Despite the Jenkins scandal, the Kremlin overthrow, the Chinese bomb and Labor's victory in Britain, the market dipped for only a few hours, quickly reversed direction, and by week's end had made up practically all its losses...
...Adam, describing the plight of the only male on earth to survive sterilization after an accidental nuclear blast (the army has to shield him from hordes of would-be mothers), sold 2,000,000 copies, was soon followed by other atomic potboilers (Alas, Babylon, How to Survive the H-Bomb and Why); of acute inflammation of the pancreas; in Jacksonville...