Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winthrop House twice rallied from deficits to take the coed touch football championship from Pierson College, 13-12. Bernie Bach fired a 50-yard touchdown bomb to Lissa Muscatine, giving Winthrop a 7-6 lead...
...footnote to the years of the counterculture, former Political Revolution ary Jane Alpert, 27, last week surrendered to federal authorities in New York City after living on the lam for 4½ years. She had jumped bail after her conviction in 1970 for conspiring to bomb Manhattan buildings as part of the extreme left's antiEstablishment, anti-corporation, antiwar crusade...
That heedless remark, evoking the cliches of hoary antiSemitism, was the worst-aimed bomb of four-star Air Force General George S. Brown's 33-year military career. When it exploded last week, President Ford called Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, into the Oval Office for a ten-minute reprimand. New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits demanded an investigation. Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin called for Brown's resignation...
...Bomb Blasts. At least two nations oppose the lifting of sanctions. Chile has complained that Cuba flew arms to the late Marxist President Salvador Allende before he was overthrown. Uruguay insists that Castro still underwrites the Tupamaro guerrilla movement. Bolivia, whose military government last week put down an army revolt, and Paraguay may also vote no on the grounds that they are subject to Castroite subversion. Almost as if to underscore such claims, bomb blasts rocked both the Bolivian embassy and the Brazilian Cultural Institute in Quito before the conference...
...Figures like Marilyn Monroe ("She exulted in her carnality") and Fiorello LaGuardia ("swashbuckling five-foot-two-inch mayor") coexist in a kind of cartoon version of American folklore. About three pages are devoted to the life and times of Frank Sinatra-juxtaposed with a mini-history of the atomic bomb. In the spinning mind of the reader, the Bay of Pigs and the Edsel seem to loom as equal disasters. The Cliquot Club Eskimos and the Chicago Seven, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Howdy Doody-one is no more weightless than the other in such a time-capsule vacuum...