Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office, told them: "If you've made up your mind to get rid of me, January is better than February." With the financial situation fluid, he later explained, "How could I sit at a table and negotiate when the people across the table had set a time bomb under me to go off Feb. 15 and they knew it, and everyone in the state knew...
...case that Authors Walter and Miriam Schneir hotted up in their recent pro-Rosenberg polemic. Invitation to an Inquest (Double-day). Part of that book was inspired by the fact that Sobell had not been specifically accused of helping the Rosenbergs tell the Russians how the 1945 Nagasaki A-bomb worked. Sobell's lesser crime was that he helped Julius Rosenberg badger a Navy Department engineer for classified antiaircraft and fire-control information. Even so, he was indicted with the Rosenbergs and duly convicted of engaging in the "single conspiracy" to spy for the Russians...
...David Greenglass (Ethel Rosenberg's brother) was a U.S. Army machinist stationed in Los Alamos as part of what turned out to be the Manhattan Project. In January 1945, he said, Julius Rosenberg asked him to watch out for a new bomb, parts of which he soon found himself machining. On June 3, Green-glass handed lens-mold sketches to a courier who gave the password "I come from Julius." In September, Greenglass went to New York and gave Rosenberg a cross-section sketch of a Nagasaki-type bomb. Greenglass pleaded guilty before testifying, got a 15-year sentence...
Chase dropped a bomb on Jan. 26 by cutting its prime rate from 6% to 5½% -the first such drop in six years. Though delighted, even Administration economists were surprised by the size of the slash. "Too much, too soon," chorused other bankers, who next day began cutting their rates half as much, to 5¾%, in a half bow yet pointed rebuke to Chase. Then they sat back to watch loan demand swamp Chase with more business than it could handle...
Harvard started slowly and B.U. started fast, and the disparity resulted in a Terrier goal at 1:55. Serge Boily shot from outside the blue line, and nervous goalie Fitzsimmons turned the bomb in with his stick...