Word: bombs
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...handled. And with good reason. Inhalation or swallowing of a few specks of the radioactive element can result in cancer. Exposure to slightly greater quantities can cause radiation sickness and death. Furthermore, an amount of plutonium about the size of a softball is enough to make an atom bomb...
...least 1,000 security men was present last week when the Indian Minister for Railways, Lalit Narayan Mishra, 51, formally opened a new 36-mile-long rail line from Samastipur to Muzaffarpur. Mishra had just finished his remarks and was stepping down from the dais when a time bomb exploded, ripping the dais to pieces and wounding Mishra as well as 24 bystanders (four of whom later died). Mishra himself died the following day during emergency surgery...
Bronowski, who was born in Poland, went to England as a child and received his doctorate in mathematics at Cambridge. He turned to his self-appointed task of blending science and human values after working on a statistical study of the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the atom bomb. While continuing his scientific research, most recently at the Salk Institute in San Diego, he turned out a wide variety of books including The Western Intellectual Tradition and two volumes on William Blake...
...maneuverability. And this year, as last, he has impressive horsepower behind him, notably Running Backs Chuck Foreman and Dave Osborn. Foreman ran for 777 yds., caught 53 passes and scored 15 touchdowns (tops in the league) in helping the Vikings run up a 10-4 record. For the long bomb Minnesota has mercurial John Gilliam at wide receiver...
Died. Lalit Narayan Mishra, 51, India's Minister for Railways; during emergency surgery for wounds suffered in a bomb blast; in Patna, India (see THE WORLD...