Word: bulletproofing
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...gushy, column-long dispatches from the Korea front. Their emphasis was on how Penny herself, not the boys, was faring. One of her first discoveries was the shortage of ladies' powder rooms along the 38th parallel. Near the front line, she "prayed fervently for a set of bulletproof undies." At Pusan, she tried on a Korean woman's costume, including an infant slung on her back (see cut). Garbled Penny: "I've always believed that when in Rome you should visit La Scala." She also took a jet plane ride arranged by U.S.A.F. Colonel H. A. Schmid...
...household furnishings of West Coast Gambler Mickey Cohen, currently charged with gypping the government on income taxes, were advertised for sale by a Los Angeles auctioneer. Included: "One of the finest collections of antique firearms. Mr. Cohen's personal guns, and bulletproof doors...
...special train clacked alongside the muddy, swollen Potomac, through the apple-green Appalachians and across the Midwestern flatlands into the West. At the end was a bulletproof special car, the Ferdinand Magellan, and inside it was pessimism-proof Harry Truman, bound for the hunt...
...drink heavily, he obviously eats well; a favorite snack is French pastry. He smokes an expensive brand of Russian cigarettes, Northern Palmyras. Despite his Kremlin pallor, he likes fresh air. He goes duck hunting in the marshes outside Moscow. He rates a suburban villa on the Mozhaisk Road, a bulletproof limousine, and an armored-car escort...
...high-powered, bulletproof ZIS limousine sped along Belgrade's narrow streets and broad avenues, between lines of poplars and policemen, lined up in front of the Great Hall of Topchider Park. Out of the car stepped a husky man in a blue dress uniform. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Communist dictator of Yugoslavia and a gaudily tricked-out specter to the rest of the Communist world, was going to make a speech...