Word: arms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle zone. Finally, he talked himself onto a decrepit DC-4 that took him to Port Harcourt. Along with CBS correspondent Morley Safer and 20 federal troops, Priya went looking for action. On a road outside Owerri, Biafran soldiers opened up from ambush, and Priya was hit in the arm and back. Safer and some of the Nigerian troopers carried him to an aid station, but he died an hour later...
...turned up at the taping of a Rowan and Martin show to begin reporting for this week's cover story, Los Angeles Correspondent Jim Brodhead was struck by the friendliness of everyone on the set. Even the guest stars acted like old buddies. Actor Van Johnson threw an arm over Jim's shoulders and asked: "When do you think I'll be wrapped up tonight...
...which is attached a 30-in. string with a bell-shaped weight at the other end. The object is to twirl the string with one foot and hop with the other; well-coordinated youngsters can now twirl three Footsees at once-one on each leg and one on an arm. In the first three months on the U.S. market, about 4,000,000 of the $1.29 toys have been sold. The reason cannot be novelty: a similar toy enjoyed brief popularity four years ago. Robert Asch, president of Twinpak Ltd. of Montreal, which makes the Footsee, is sure the game...
...less than passionate when he allowed: "I expect in the end that I will keep my franchise as a Democrat." Because he is in a tough campaign for re-election in South Dakota, McGovern, an old Senate friend of Humphrey's, is keeping the Vice President at arm's length...
...computers create? Maybe not, but many of their programmers have a lot of fun trying to make them behave as if they could. Some technicians feed a set of numbers into the computer which activates a mechanical arm which in turn plots designs on paper. Photographs, too, can be analyzed and stored in a computer's memory, then reorganized and distorted on electronic command. The results are often tantalizing facsimiles of op and pop. In addition, computers can be programmed to direct kinetic sculptures through any number of varied cycles...