Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bomb Victims. Violence is as contagious as the measles, says Wertham, and far more prevalent. Children are sent early to the "school for violence," where crime comic books are the texts and television dramas the instructors...
...cities, the "urban guerrillas," of whom Mallin estimates there are at least 500 professionals in Saigon alone, seldom dare to attack an American or Vietnamese official on the streets, prefer to roll a grenade into a crowded bar or toss a plastic bomb into a teeming marketplace. The purpose is to erode confidence in the government's ability to provide protection and to try to "discourage business activity, cause investment capital to flee and, in general, to undermine the economy...
...with Peking. They say that India has negotiated with Eastern Europe for 600 tanks, 400 heavy guns, 200 tank transporters, and elsewhere for 200 missile-firing supersonic aircraft and submarines, helicopters and antiaircraft missiles. Furthermore, Pakistan has accused India of using its Canadian-built reactor to build an A-bomb-a charge that India vehemently denies...
...proceed on a contract. Penn Provost David R. Goddard explained, however, that the university will accept secret work during a national emergency and will never divulge information endangering national security. University scientists, he noted, rightly published nothing on nuclear fission while Nazi Germany was trying to create an atomic bomb...
Jerry, who does the nightclub bit these days, may be recalling that atrocious bomb of 1963 when ABC invested many millions on a 40-part series of his fooleries, then canceled out after only 13. But he does have a point. As every discriminating viewer knows, the selection factor for TV shows is not the survival of the fittest but dog-eat-dog. And last week it became clear that the new dogs are still up to their old tricks...