Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Standby. Quarterback Roger Staubach, who is having his best season, must be counted on for much of the drama. Staubach, 33, completed 57% of his passes and scrambled for 316 yds. He has been better in the playoffs. His bomb to Wide Receiver Drew Pearson beat the Vikings in the final minute, and he buried the Rams with four touchdown passes. Staubach's infantry consists of Running Backs Robert Newhouse and Preston Pearson. Neither is O.J. Simpson, but both ran effectively enough to make Dallas the top rushing team in their conference...
Just a few hours after the La Guardia bombing, President Ford ordered federal action to make certain that such a tragedy does not happen again. Specifically, he assigned a task force, headed by Transportation Secretary William Coleman, to draw up recommendations for tightening airport security. Coleman hoped to have them on Ford's desk within two weeks. It would be no easy task, though, to determine whether any of the 1.1 million passengers who enter the nation's 425 main airports each day was carrying a bomb. "A bag is a bag," confessed one perplexed FBI official...
...immediate aftermath of the La Guardia bombing, many airports took their own emergency measures. Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco temporarily closed down most or all of their locker areas. At Washington National Airport, a bomb threat came within hours after the La Guardia explosion, and guards used specially trained dogs to sniff out potential explosive devices. Virtually every major airport expanded its security forces; in the case of one airline, the increase was as much...
...Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, bomb threats have become so common (they average five a month; one closed the airport for an hour last week) that teams of experts using a dog can check the entire airport in 15 minutes. Nonetheless, even experienced personnel were extra cautious last week. Passengers who left their bags for a moment to buy a newspaper or take a drink of water sometimes returned to find them seized...
Traditional metal-detecting devices sometimes fail to spot modern bombs, which often have nonmetallic, acid-filled starters. The new devices that experts are developing include X-ray detectors that can more accurately locate a bomb without seeing it, an electronic sniffer that picks up the vapors emitted by dynamite, and a device for creating an electronic field that could cause certain explosives to emit an identifiable beep. On less exotic levels, officials are considering placing all lockers in a secured area, as Los Angeles did after a 1974 blast killed three people, or banning them altogether, as London has done...