Word: cannoneering
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...southeast corner of the Arabian peninsula, remained one of the most stagnant societies on earth. The 60-year-old Sultan decreed long ago that his 600,000 subjects should not own automobiles or attend cinemas. In the capital, Muscat, the city gates are closed at sundown, when the cannon booms. People must carry lanterns at night; flashlights are banned as too blinding...
...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...
...Nevada's William Raggio, 43, Washoe county district attorney, is trailing-but not by much-Incumbent Howard Cannon. Raggio, who also faces a lightly regarded primary opponent, is the only one of Nixon's starting nine who is not now a House member...
...Brooks Range is ever quite the same again. After three dark months of frozen silence, the sun reappears as a long, slanting shaft that illuminates only the highest peaks. Each day the light descends, until finally even the deepest valley is bathed in warmth. The ice breaks, roaring like cannon fire, and the ground explodes with color as wild flowers bloom. Big bears stagger out of hibernation. Rivers teem with salmon, grayling and char. Caribou march in long single files toward new feeding grounds. Glacial ice glitters like emeralds and sapphires. The world seems reborn...
...father take his daughter on a cruise to Alaska without stirring up a fuss? Not if Daddy is Cory Grant. Outraged because the Peninsular and Oriental passenger steamship company released a picture of him and his four-year-old daughter Jennifer (his only child, by Actress Dyan Cannon, 32), the 66-year-old actor called off the trip and vowed to sue the line. Why? Because, said Gary, "my ex-wife and I have agreed not to allow our child to be photographed. There's too much crime and violence in the world, and we don't want...