Word: billye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Getting Behind. Son of Major General Robert Olds, an airpower pioneer along with Billy Mitchell, Olds grew up in airplanes, flew 107 missions in P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs against the Luftwaffe. Olds finds dogfighting little changed from World War II. "The main idea is still to get...
Silent Thieves. The truck that Maude Smyth spotted belonged to N. M. Rothschild & Sons, a firm of merchant bankers. It was making routine deliveries of gold bullion to dealers about London when it stopped, as usual, to drop a bag of silver worth $14 at a small printing shop on...
Wall of Foam. For most U.S. police, the only such weapon now available is the old-fashioned billy club-and the trouble is that many policemen are surprisingly unskilled in its use.
When used as a club, the billy too often shatters on a suspect's skull, forcing a policeman to resort to his gun. The billy is better used to poke and jab at the kidneys and other vulnerable areas; law-enforcement experts are now urging more and better training...
Plainclothesmen may soon be armed with a new model that telescopes to fit into the pocket, extends to full, firm length at a flick. General Ordnance even offers a plastic billy that does double duty: the company's new incapacitating spray can be shot out of the handle.