Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were no incidents of violence during the day, although two bomb threats were telephoned to University police. The University police were in contact with Cambridge police throughout the day, but Harvard did not seek a court injunction against the demonstrators. One Cambridge police lieutenant said that, "Harvard had the situation well in hand...
...Under the banner "Prepare for war and natural disaster," Chairman Mao Tse-tung has ordered hundreds of thousands of city dwellers to be shipped off to the countryside as part of the Shu-san (literally, "to disperse") movement. For months, the Chinese have been dismantling and dispersing factories, digging bomb shelters and trenches and stockpiling food...
Agnew's views continued to draw considerable sympathy. The San Francisco Examiner editorialized: "It's high time somebody else started getting headlines besides the yippies, bomb-throwers and the disruptive critics of every traditional American value." Vermont Royster, editor of the Wall Street Journal, bemoaned the fact that Agnew had drawn no praise for being in the company of critics like Jefferson, and added: "All of which leads to the melancholy conclusion that the press can dish it out but quivers when it's dished back...
...word of Buñuel's enlarging reputation reached Generalissimo Franco, who invited Buñuel back to the old country to make a film, all expenses paid. Biting the handout that fed him, Buñuel created Viridiana, a movie with the inexorable rhythm of a time bomb. Vatican and Franco partisans needed only one look at the scene in which a nun is raped by a beggar; Viridiana was swiftly disowned...
Although this week's scares are the first this year, there have been other threats here before. Last year, at the time of the strike, a caller said a bomb would go off in the Faculty Club. As is the case with this year's threats, police did not make any arrests...