Word: flare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solar observatories scattered throughout the U.S., astronomers reached for their telephones one day last June and called the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Each observer had spotted the beginnings of a solar flare, an extremely hot outburst of high-energy particles on the surface of the sun that often precedes magnetic storms in the earth's ionosphere. Within minutes, an Aerobee rocket soared from its launch pad, carrying with it the largest X-ray telescope ever sent into space...
...night. All white law-enforcement officers, including the National Guardsmen, were withdrawn, and some 100 Negro policemen-nearly all Cleveland has-and 500 Negro civilians, mostly militants, were sent in. Stokes' bet paid off. Rioting stopped and no one was injured, though looting continued. Two nights after the flare-up, Stokes returned the Guard and an integrated police force. The Cleveland Insurance Board estimated damage from both fire and looting at a relatively low $1,000,000 to $1,500,000-a figure that does not cover small shop owners who could not obtain insurance...
...based on several premises, none of which may be entirely safe. Among them are the assumptions that Humphrey will be Nixon's opponent, that the Paris peace talks will not have made dramatic progress, which could boost Humphrey's prospects, and that ghetto unrest will not flare into disastrous rioting. Given these qualifications, here is how the race for November figures...
...tropic Puerto Rico, only the weather generates as much heat as the island's politics. This year temperatures - and tempers - are soaring unusually high as the result of a rash of fires that began to flare last October, just as candidates were warming up for what promises to be a sulfurous 1968 campaign. All the fires have been traced to the same origin: fire bombs aimed at driving U.S. -owned business out of the Commonwealth. In the past year, arsonists have set 20 fires costing $15.6 million, with department stores and supermarkets the principal targets...
...arsonists' bombs are expertly fashioned from a minuscule penlight battery, a wristwatch, a flashlight bulb and incendiary chemicals (potassium chlorate and potassium permanganate) that can be bought at local drug stores. Often tucked under a pile of fabrics in a crowded store, the minibombs are timed to flare after closing hour. In one day, four fires did $810,000 worth of damage to stores owned by U.S. merchants; unexploded devices have been found in the bathroom of a girls' school and, two weeks ago, at a U.S. Selective Service office in San Juan. In April, a bomb...