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For George Harrison, the November 1970 release of "All Things Must Pass" possessed all the subtlety of an atomic bomb.

The same year, the Sierra Club helped publish the bestseller “The Population Bomb” by Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich and his wife, Anne, a Stanford scientific researcher, which argued that saving the planet was a numbers game.

Originally opened in 1728 as the Church of St John the Evangelist, the site was decommissioned as a church and became a concert venue in the 1960s following bomb damage during World War Two.

Officials said the department’s bomb squad and crime lab teams showed up around 9 a.m., and focused their attention on the unattended bag sitting next to a large blue cooler on top of a bench in front of the building.

A suspicious bag seemingly abandoned on a bench prompted the shutdown of the Torrance courthouse early Wednesday and drew the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad to the scene.