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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peck, a national leader of the Mobilization for Survival, told the crowd before the march that "Draper has the best eye in the world for delivering missiles. It is a fantastic technological achievement to be able to land a bomb within 90 feet after a journey of 4-6000 miles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Small Group Demonstrates At Draper Weapons Lab | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...violence to one specific act of TV violence. About the best documented instance, from the viewpoint of anti-TV forces, occurred in 1966 when NBC screened Doomsday Flight, ignoring pleas by airline pilots not to do so. A made-for-TV special, it presented a fictional extortion attempt by bomb threat against an airliner in flight. After the show the Federal Aviation Agency recorded a dramatic increase in phone-in bomb threats to airlines. More horrifying was the lawsuit against the same network by a mother who asked for $11 million after her nine-year-old daughter was gang-raped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning to Live with TV | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...Kaufman, whether he chooses to acknowledge it or not, is up to something a good deal more ambitious. He is continually questioning, then undermining the idea of what is funny. "Andy takes a lot of risks," Zmuda says. "What performer in his right mind would go onstage and deliberately bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Laughter from the Toy Chest | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...demented to attempt such an action. At the Surry plant, near Richmond, Va., someone poured what appeared to be sodium hydroxide, a corrosive chemical used for cleaning and purification, over stored fuel rods in an attempt to damage them. Two days later the plant was the subject of a bomb threat. Although it was not known who undertook these measures, the FBI was investigating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hell No, We Won't Glow | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...some 300 million years, the cockroach has survived the ravages of nature and, lately, the best efforts of man to squash it, spray it or bug-bomb it into extinction. Some 3,600 species of the hardy creature thrive in a variety of habitats all over the world. Now one of the most common species in the U.S., Periplaneta americana, or the American cockroach,* may be hit by a blow below the belt: scientists have synthesized periplanone B, a chemical that acts as one of the female roaches' essences d'amour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sexy Strategy | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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