Word: armbanded
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Lieut. Colonel Hillman was asked by an armband-wearer: "What do napalm or gas do to a person when used in Viet Nam?" Said he: "The gas you speak of is a misnomer as we normally understand gas. It is better described as an incapacitating agent, one already in use in the United States by police and Army . . ." Yelled a heckler: "Does it work against Negroes?" Continued Hillman: "To answer the rest of the question, what does napalm do? It burns...
...well-dressed, middle-aged man walked into a branch of Tokyo's Teikoku Bank wearing the armband of a municipal official. Claiming that he was a city health inspector, the man ordered the bank manager to summon all his employees so that he could give them a dose of antidysentery medicine. The employees gulped the potion, then collapsed in agony. From the open vaults, the medicine man grabbed about $185 in cash and disappeared into the street. Behind him, twelve people lay dead of cyanide poisoning...
Among the demonstrators were 30 small children. One four-year-old boy carried a sign reading "I want to be a daddy some day." His white armband was cut from a diaper. The youngest demonstrator, aged 5 1/2 months, slept in his carriage most of the afternoon...
...assured of supplies, fuel, and permission to sail off again. U.S. Rear Admiral Allen E. Smith Jr. boarded the Santa Maria to discuss the fate of the 42 U.S. passengers, was met by Galváo wearing a black beret, a khaki uniform with shoulder boards, and an armband in the green and red of Portugal's flag. Swashbuckling Galváo offered to transfer the passengers to the U.S. destroyers. High seas made the operation too dangerous, and Smith declined. The Santa Maria circled on, in and outside the three-mile limit. Brazilian authorities suggested that...
...test for Vitalis. Jayson shirts is perhaps the advertiser caught with its chin farthest out: market-bound beyond recall, complete with ads and collar labels, is an "Ingemar Johansson Shirt," due to go on sale in stores Aug. 25. Quipped General Sales Manager Paul Groetzinger: "I wore a black armband when I went to the office last Tues day." But, in the best tradition, he is counting heavily on a rematch: "I still think he's a hell of an asset...