NEW YORK: The Mad Bomber

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As any goggle-eyed New Yorker could guess from reading the biggest and blackest headlines, the "Mad Bomber" had struck. His calling card: a crude but workable bomb made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery—all contained in a short (2-5 in.) length of ordinary pipe capped at both ends. And, to provide the final...

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