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Bomb Crater in the American Dream
Weiss, Peter | October 5, 1970 issue

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The article describes the effect of bombing on people of U.S. when a bomb was exploded in the University of Wisconsin. The U.S. Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin was blown up, causing $6 million damage and the death of one man. It rattled windows all over town and the walls of Middle American isolation, Sonic 1,700 pounds of Wisconsin fertilizer, 100 gallons of oil and a stick of dynamite exploded the dream. People's reaction to a bombing in the midst of denying a war is frightening. Kids after graduation went in to the Army for two cynical years of the psychopathic life, and then to graduate school. America was resting up for its next war.

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BOMBINGS; UNIVERSITIES & colleges -- Wisconsin; RESEARCH institutes; DAMAGES; DYNAMITE; WAR; UNITED States. Army; UNITED States
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