Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncover the activities of organized crime in Arizona, and like the blood-stained pavement where he was killed, his memory has now begun to fade as well. Two years later, the asphalt where Bolles was murdered has been repaired, and the Clarendon Hotel, in whose parking lot the bomb blast occurred, has commemorated the event in a strangely appropriate if unintentional fashion--by changing its name in recognition of the unfavorable publicity the hotel received as the murder site...
...popular stereotypes is that all but the superficial aspects of the time get lost. Granted, the '50s were an affluent and relatively peaceful time in this country, but that peace and affluence brought with it a very conservative outlook. America had stemmed the tide of fascism, we had the bomb (and so did they), for the first time there was security and prosperity, and that brought with it commitment to the status quo. One didn't tamper with success, and as America had accomplished more than any other country on earth, to question what was happening in this country...
...answer to America's "China card"-meaning Taiwan would seek ties with the U.S.S.R. This suggestion was flatly rejected. Washington, actually, was worried about a grimmer prospect. Taiwan has a host of talented scientists and an accelerated nuclear reactor program; predictions were that it could produce an atomic bomb in two years...
...miles from Durango to Hunan, but the Mexicans and Chinese who inhabit those provinces could easily establish a kitchen detente. What they have in uncommon is a passion for pepper-not the condiment but the vegetable, red and red-hot. The spiciest variety in Hunan is a fingertip-size bomb called "To-the-Sky," because it grows facing upward. The explosive has not gone off in America; there are only a dozen restaurants devoted to authentic Hunanese cuisine in the entire U.S. The first was founded by Henry Chung in San Francisco five years ago, and almost immediately won national...
...must succumb even though he pursues his bachelor freedom across all of Europe in a touring car? She must be as delectable as strawberries and cream, a muse of delight, Goethe's "eternal feminine" luring men on. Sachs makes her predatory, poised like a pelican about to dive-bomb a poor fish. And Philip Bosco as the Devil displays an unctuous complacency that defeats the role...