Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clothes. A diminutive Hubert Humphrey, hat and cane gingerly in hand, is pushed on to stage center by a Large But disjoined paw from the wings. A frantic Dick Nixon, decked out as a magician, thrusts his arm into a hat and plucks out a hairy hawk clutching a bomb. "And voila," says Nixon, "we haul out a dove . . . a dove . . . I'll have to ask you to imagine this is a dove...
...have made the decision to fight. Once decided, further intrusion by politicians and diplomats creates more confusion than forward motion, loss of surprise, and a mucky situation such as we now have in Viet Nam. You just can't decide for a general where and when he will bomb or how he will attack. These are his valuable resources which spell success or defeat; timing is crucial. It's surprising that Westmoreland has done so well under the circumstances. And good luck to you, General Creighton Abrams...
...Viet Cong flags, most of the crowd of 40,000 were subdued and conventionally dressed. The only trouble came when a phalanx of pro-war marchers showed up after a Loyalty Day parade farther downtown that included independence-minded Byelorussians, Third Avenue drunks and a Chinese-American chanting "Bomb Peiping...
...talked for forty-five minutes, allowing the Secret Service to trace the call twice. Five minutes later he called back, said there was no bomb, and apologized...
...Secret Service returned Monday afternoon because they had received another apologetic call about the bomb threat. This call apparently was not traced back to Cabot...