Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the grey, smoke-stained wreckage he poked. "I recognize that tie," he said. "And that dress. That's Bob Pe-gram's tie, and that dress belonged to his wife Nancy." Years before, as a youth on his first date, Allen had taken Nancy out. He moved on. Here was a pair of children's wooden Dutch shoes, there a few color slides of castles in Germany, some gay apparel, a brochure about Strat-'ford-on-Avon, a movie camera, a green Michelin guide to Paris, a little girl's dress, picture postcards from...
Winging from town to town in a Cessna, Yarborough assailed Connally as ''a confessed lobbyist for Eastern oil and gas monopolies, nursed in the smoke-filled room and weaned on the big lie technique." One such "lie," declared Yarborough, was Connally's press-conference plea at the 1960 Democratic Convention for delegates to vote for Johnson because Jack Kennedy suffered from "a death-dealing disease." Conflicting religious rumors about Connally were widespread: 1) he had quit as President Kennedy's Navy Secretary because he is anti-Catholic; 2) he is a Catholic himself. (Connally...
...corner of the prison grounds where, in swirls of ground fog, it was thrust into an aluminum oven with a chimney at one end. A gas fire burned for two hours, reducing Eichmann's light frame to a handful of ashes. While the body was cremated, black smoke poured into the sky. None of the watching officials and reporters said a word, but the memory of the evil holocausts of Auschwitz was inevitable...
...Smoke Screen. Purpose of the high-altitude shots is both military and scientific. Nuclear explosions in the vacuum of space or in the thin fringe of the atmosphere do not behave as they do in the dense air near sea level. Little or none of their energy goes into shock waves; most of it escapes as X rays, neutrons, and other varieties of radiation that are relatively unimportant in ground-level bursts. But military men are most anxious to learn what this radiation will do to missiles and satellites, and even to aircraft...
...most serious military effect probably concerns radar-particularly the powerful radars that are being developed to spot ballistic missiles plunging down from space. A high-altitude nuclear explosion, the AEC explains, acts like an enormous, radar-blinding smoke screen. Radar beams that search the sky for invading warheads may be either absorbed or totally reflected by bomb-ionized air. An enemy hoping to hit a target defended by radar-guided anti-missile missiles might well explode a warhead several hundred miles up to create an electronic smoke screen that would blind defensive radars to other warheads racing toward their targets...