Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the war, Honeywell produced the BLU-26/B "guava" bomb. This bomb was first used in secret air raids on neutral Laos in 1966. One mother bomb contains 600 to 700 guavas, each of which releases high-speed steel pellets upon explosion, as well as hot plastic fragments which are undetectable by X-rays when embedded in the body. These pellets can't pierce steel, cement, or sandbags--they are designed to tear unprotected human flesh. One mother bomb can saturate an area the size of ten football fields with lethal shrapnel. Time-delay fuses are designed to explode...
Thus ended Cain's remarkable double-dealing life as a policeman and mobster. Cain was a Chicago detective in the 1950s, and later became chief investigator in the Cook County sheriffs office. In the mid-1960s he was dismissed from the sheriffs office for concocting a phony drug raid, and he became the chief operative of Chicago Mafia Overlord Momo Salvatore (Sam) Giancana. In 1966 Giancana left Chicago for Mexico to avoid federal heat and counseled the Chicago syndicate from his exile; Cain was a trusted aide...
...Phony Raid. Cain's successful double-dealing broke down in 1964 after he planted $43,000 worth of drugs in a motel, then staged a "raid" and claimed to have "recovered" the drugs. When Ogilvie learned that Cain had plotted the phony raid to make himself look good, he fired him. During the FBI investigation brought on by Cain's dismissal, it was discovered that, while on the sheriffs staff, he had helped the Mafia smoke out a suspected stoolie in its midst by having a lie detector test administered privately to five bank robbers-for the benefit...
...Italian Style) makes social slapstick out of Italian law. Hoffman appears as a shy bank clerk whose beautiful wife (Stefania Sandrelli) floods him with killing affection. She is an embarrassment at the table, where she delights in sucking fish heads, and in bed, where she screams like an air-raid siren during orgasm. Months of this kind of married life, plus a hysterical pregnancy and intrusive in-laws, are enough to drive Hoffman into the arms of another woman (Carla Gravina). Hoffman's life thus becomes a long, wearing series of legal combats with his estranged wife, who hauls...
LAST YEAR's Music 180 class had some of the best musicians at Harvard. The Bach Society has begun to raid that icebox and the result has been a greatly improved orchestra...