Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harbor in Baku and incautiously gave chance Russian acquaintances his copy of Doctor Zhivago and a couple of New York newspapers. The day after that, police expelled James Shultz, 21, an Otis, Kans. boy on a Y.M.C.A. tour. Komsomolskaya Pravda said that Shultz had met in Kiev "a ras cal ready to sell his honor for foreign rags," had given him three Bibles as well as some clothes. ("I don't know of anything I'd rather be charged with," said Shultz's father, a Methodist minister...
...hulk named Clarence Collins. One evening Joseph dined by candlelight with his wife at the fashionable Colonial Club. After dinner, at his suggestion, Wilma dropped her husband off downtown, drove on home by herself. When Selby got home his wife was dead, shot twice with a .22-cal. pistol...
...Bullets. For fast-draw target practice for policemen or gun buffs, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. is introducing a wax bullet in a plastic cartridge case that can be fired from .38-cal. and .45-cal. standard revolvers. The bullets use a chemical primer but no powder, are "reasonably accurate" at 25 ft., can inflict no serious damage on innocent bystanders...
...self-trained naturalist who contributes scientific reports to the California Academy of Sciences, a pathfinder who has saved stranded motorists by skiing through blizzards with food strapped to his broad back. He is so accurate with a slingshot that he rarely has to resort to his .22-cal. pistol to kill small game. He scoffs at the idea of riding an animal up a mountain: "I can carry a damn mule faster than he can carry...
Just as first dawn lighted Cuba's northern coastline one morning last week, a Piper Comanche droned in at 200 ft. over the coastal highway 70 miles east of Havana. One of Fidel Castro's army patrols, carrying a .50-cal. machine gun, opened fire, riddling the plane with bullets. The plane landed hastily just off the road, and out stepped two Florida pilot-adventurers: William Shergales, 34, and Howard Lewis ("Swede") Rundquist, 33, whose foot was gushing blood. Demanded Shergales: "Take me to Fidel Castro...