Word: cannoneering
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Audience reaction seemed to fall somewhere between these conflicting judgments. Ratings by A.C. Nielsen the day after the first session showed that ABC stations in New York City and Los Angeles initially doubled their normal audiences-but that New York viewers began switching to reruns of CBS's Cannon and Kojak after the first hour. CBS's share of the prime-time audience during its Thursday coverage was lower than ABC's the night before. Whatever the ratings, the live-TV coverage performed a valuable national service in giving the country at large a look...
...almost 900-year-old dungeon in the Tower of London, where historic heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh and villains like Guy Fawkes were once imprisoned, was jammed with the usual crowd of summer tourists last week. Suddenly, the three-ton 18th century Royal George cannon, a favorite exhibit with children, exploded with a deafening roar. The blast hurled the bronze gun barrel five feet into the air, showered bystanders with lethal splinters from the oak carriage, and blew out windows and a door 90 feet above...
...Warder Harry Harrington: "It was just like wartime. There was a woman with her leg off, kids with no clothes." When the dust settled, 37 persons, including eight children, had been injured. Two of the victims lost their legs, and a child's foot was found beneath the cannon. One British woman, Dorothy Household, 47, died later that night...
Police said that the explosion had been caused by a 10-lb. plastic bomb, planted under the cannon. Two minutes before it went off, a man identifying himself as a member of the Irish Republican Army phoned the London Daily Mirror saying: "We are planting bombs." He failed to say where the bombs were...
...three-mile limit, based on the range of a land cannon, emerged in the 18th century. In World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandated a 200-mile "neutrality zone" to safeguard the western flank of Latin America, and that seems to have inspired many of the 200-mile claims being made today. These and other claims generally reflect defense considerations or the extent of important coastal fisheries...