Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrested continued to leak out of China. Among them: Vice Education Minister Ch'ih Ch'un, the head of Peking's Tsinghua University, long a bastion of radical power, and Shanghai Party Secretary Ma T'ien-shui. Ma, the wall posters declared, had plotted to arm the urban militia in order to seize power in Shanghai...
...Barbados earlier in the day, but then flew back to Trinidad. After deplaning, investigators found, the pair placed a call to Orlando Bosch in Caracas. On their arrest, the two claimed to be employees of a Caracas detective agency headed by Luis Posada Carriles, former head of the operations arm of the Venezuelan secret police. Known as "Inspector Vasilio," Posada had been trained by the CIA in antiguerrilla warfare and demolitions...
...Reed? Well, he's the same Lou Reed--then "Louis Reed" who blew the lid off the went on to play Wally in "Leave it to Beaver." His father runs a Blimpie on the corner of 43rd and Madison in NYC. Oh, yeah--you know that right arm? Totally phony, Blown off in the war. Blown...
...employee of B.F. Goodrich in Akron, he went to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, served in the Air Force, then joined General Electric and studied at Cincinnati's Xavier University for a degree in business administration. In 1966 Backe moved to Silver Burdett, the publishing arm of General Learning Corp., a joint venture of GE and Time Inc. By 1969 he had become president of General Learning, leaving it in 1973 to head up CBS's publishing group,* where he boosted sales from $150 million to $207 million in three years...
Possibly the most remarkable piece of Kongcraft, however, is the giant arms employed mainly to pick up and caress Jessica Lange, 27, the model-turned-actress who plays his inamorata, Dwan. The hands are 6 ft. across and the arms weigh 1,650 Ibs. each. They were designed and built separate from the complete Kong body and suspended from a crane in order to lift Lange 30 or 40 ft. into the air. Again, hydraulics were used to manipulate the huge fingers, and there was great concern that they might lack fine motor skills and accidentally crush Lange. Like...