Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took ten sticks of dynamite, some blasting caps and wire, and began to shadow Jack Kennedy. He cased the cottage in Hyannisport, sized up the house in Georgetown, headed south for Palm Beach. "The security," he said later, "was lousy." His plans were to rig himself up as a human bomb and explode in Kennedy's presence. "The Kennedy money bought him the White House," Richard Pavlick said. "I wanted to teach the United States the presidency is not for sale...
Figuring that the drilling problems encountered in piercing the crust of the lava lake to its molten core would be similar to tapping the heat of molten rocks created by a man-made blast. Rawson and Higgins set up a gasoline-driven rotary drilling rig in the middle of Kilauea Iki's cone on the steaming crust of the lava pool. Using compressed air as a coolant, they drilled a 3½-in. hole into the crust at the tedious rate of 1½ ft. every eight hours. The 1,652° heat damaged the diamond bits and jammed...
...Gaulle warned the Europeans-who are certain to vote against him-that the "new" Algeria could not be built without their help and the help of France. But De Gaulle's special appeal was to the army, which could rig next month's election against him if it chose, intimidate Moslems into abstaining or voting no. Addressing the officers of the garrison, he again spoke of the "new" Algeria, which "must be herself, otherwise-and you know this only too well-she will sever all her links with France." He set two tasks for the army: "First...
...word rolled out like a dirge in a Philadelphia court last week as lawyer after lawyer rose to voice the history-making plea for his clients. They were 19 major electrical manufacturers, including General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corp., charged by the Government with conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion in electrical equipment (TIME, Dec. 5). In the largest criminal case in the history of the antitrust laws, most of the companies were allowed to plead nolo contendere (no contest) in certain cases, provided they pleaded guilty in seven major cases...
They represented 29 manufacturers of electrical equipment-including such big names as General Electric. Westinghouse and Allis-Chalmers-and 48 present or former executives of those companies. All were charged by the Government with criminally conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion worth of heavy electrical equipment over the last seven years...