Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incomparable work has been happily restored," Pope Paul VI declared proudly last week as he unveiled the Pieta to the public once more (center). A 15-ft. wall of nonglare, bulletproof glass now shields the Madonna from her admirers. But behind the glass, insists one Vatican official, is a masterpiece that is "still the work of Michelangelo, not of the restorers...
...aboard. Over Tennessee the prospects darkened; the hijackers began threatening to plunge the plane into the atomic-energy facilities at Oak Ridge if their demands were not met. They finally landed in Chattanooga, where Southern sent aboard an estimated $2,000,000 in aluminum boxes, as well as the bulletproof vests the hijackers had requested. They had promised to release the passengers there, but the large crowds gathered at the airport rattled them, and they ordered the plane to Havana...
...reflects an enforced change in American life. The new auto steering-wheel locks, for instance, get credit for much of the drop in car thefts. The same sort of result is achieved when taxi drivers carry little change to be robbed of, and when their cabs are equipped with bulletproof partitions. Young women who live alone are safer when they keep dogs in their apartments; welfare clients are foiling mailbox thieves by picking up their checks in person; and elderly Boston women are going to morning Mass in self-protecting groups of ten to 20. One of the most important...
...Chinese Society Restaurant, shooed owners and clients out with a pistol, then hidden their timed gelignite device in the kitchen. The explosion, 30 minutes later, gouged a huge hole in the building, while a spray of glass rained down from smashed windowpanes in nearby houses. As British soldiers in bulletproof vests and blue-coated Royal Ulster Constabulary men rushed up, a single rifle shot sent them diving for cover. Townspeople cowered in alleys and shop entrances. Then another volley of shots, and a man was dragged to safety. It turned out that he was an innocent passerby, caught...
...apply with his 373 delegates. It has been for him a grim and courageous convalescence. After appearing at a Mass in Maryland and reading the 23rd Psalm, Wallace flew in an Air Force jet supplied by Richard Nixon to Montgomery, Ala., where, seated in his wheelchair behind a low, bulletproof lectern, he delivered an airport speech, a wan version of his old campaign rousers. Then he flew on to Miami. All the while, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Arkansas' Wilbur Mills continued its last-minute efforts. A small Washington group of strategists bent on heading off the South...