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Eterna is a Swiss watch manufacturer with an established reputation largely due to the excellence of its "Eternamatic" movement. I suspect this is the wristwatch that Mr. Brezhnev owned. But chrome-plated? We would never resort to such plating, as our customers are entitled to better...
Sonnenfeldt protested that the watch was a gift from his mother-in-law, and that she might be less than delighted at such a one-sided deal. With that, Brezhnev left the room, returning quickly with a somewhat better chrome-plated wristwatch-a Swedish-made Eternamat. As a sweetener, he hinted that Sonnenfeldt might get his own watch back if and when there is a final SALT agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Sonnenfeldt's mother-in-law might be miffed for quite a while...
...presented Prager with a small air-force pin, smilingly suggesting that it might make it easier for Prager to be a military correspondent in Syria in the unhappy event of more fighting in the area. Was there a more ominous symbolism in the Defense Minister's gift, a chrome-plated presentation pistol? Not at all, Tlas explained. He told Prager that he merely thought the present might come in handy some day in the correspondent's own troubled home base, Beirut...
Unchecked, Moore proceeded with her plan. She arrived in Danville about 11 a.m. to purchase a chrome-plated .38 Smith & Wesson revolver from Fernwood for $145. She paid by check. He found her "in good spirits," although she claimed she was in a rush. "I had no way of suspecting that this gal was going to go out and commit the completely crazy act that she did," he insisted later. "Can you imagine it? A John Birch officer selling guns to radical kooks." Moore also picked up some cartridges, although she seemed concerned when he had only target loads...
...Ford came out and started to wave," Sipple recalled. "I started to applaud. At that point, I seen this arm with the chrome-plated gun at the end of it right in front of me. I don't know why I did it. Reaction, I guess. I lunged with both hands. I grabbed her arm down. I don't know if it went off before I grabbed her or not." Other officers were certain the lunge was in time. "There's no question he did deflect the weapon," said Lieut. Frank Jordan. "Just as she shot, he pushed it aside...