Word: cal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge, the defendant and two of his would-be liberators dead in the gun battle that thwarted the escape (TIME, August 17). But a routine investigation by the police of the weapons used in the attempt turned up some startling news last week. Three of the guns-a .380-cal. Browning automatic pistol, and two .30-cal. Plainfield carbines-belonged to Angela Davis, 26, the brilliant black former U.C.L.A. assistant philosophy professor fired last year because she was a Communist. Davis openly professed her Communist party membership, and a conservative majority of the California board of regents blocked her reappointment...
...coasts in poor weather, it had an antiquated steering mechanism that kept breaking down. Pueblo was crammed with highly classified material and devices. Yet it possessed only rudimentary equipment for destroying its secrets in an emergency. The Pentagon had authorized Pueblo to carry a relatively large, 3-in. 50-cal. cannon. But tiny, overloaded Pueblo had neither the deck space for it nor qualified gunners to man it. Bucher settled for two ineffectual .50-cal. machine guns mounted in exposed positions...
...called the Linger Longer Lounge. He did not linger too long, however, for after a few beers he got into an argument with the barmaid, Hortenzia Escobedo, over the charge for his drinks. When she asked him to leave, the sergeant allegedly went to his car, took a .30-cal. rifle from the trunk, and fired four shots into the ground before speeding away...
...Children are taught to play cautiously-if they are allowed outside at all. The suburban routine for housewives now includes decapitating rattlers with a shovel. Melody's parents have killed 18 of them since the family moved to Pinole in 1968. At least one husband keeps a .22-cal. rifle ready in his closet...
...obvious effort to depreciate whatever our soldiers may have accomplished in Cambodia, you say: "The 1,700 tons of captured ammunition is a huge haul [June 1]. Yet two-thirds of it is .51-cal. ammunition used for antiaircraft purposes . . ." As the father of a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam, may I ask just what the hell is wrong with that? If all this ammunition had been intended to shoot the brats who are burning buildings, would you have depreciated its capture...