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...Thursday, Dec. 5, 1963, Arthur Inman, one of the most bizarre Americans in the history of the Republic, went into his toilet carrying a Colt revolver. The latest in a lifelong string of crises, real or imagined, to cause Inman to despair was rising outside his old haunt in Boston's Back Bay. "The Prudential Tower," he had told his diary, "is 28 stories into the sky, soon will be goosing God." He had fled to Brookline to escape the din of construction, taking with him the noises in his head, and now he was over the edge. "This...
...been through the wringer or on a bender; even rebels like Brando, Dean and Clift were smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five-day stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani started to show clothes that would turn menswear inside out, his models sported jackets of wrinkled linen and cheeks shadowed by whiskers. Says the designer in retrospect: "It evokes something tender, rather than...
...GIACOMO, 3, a gray son of Holy Bull and a 50-to-1 long shot; the 131st Kentucky Derby; in Louisville, Ky. The colt, named by its record-producer owner after Sting's 9-year-old son, had finished first in just one race before last Saturday, when he became the horse with the second worst odds ever to win the Derby, trailing only Donerail's 91-to-1 feat...
...Made in the USA" used to be mandatory for military procurement, but the Pentagon, under pressure to buy more efficiently, has opened bidding beyond U.S. borders--and foreigners are piling in. The Colt handgun, first used by the U.S. military in the Mexican-American War of 1846, has been replaced as standard-issue infantry gear by an Italian-designed Beretta. A Brazilian-made Embraer surveillance plane will soon patrol battlefields for the Army rather than a Gulfstream jet produced in Savannah, Ga. Britain's BAE Systems contributes avionics to the F-16, F-18 and F-117 bombers. Rolls-Royce...
...been more generous than the House to the military, had chopped three systems from its bill on the reasonable ground that they did not rate high priority at a time of limited available funds. They were the 9-mm Beretta handgun, which is a replacement for the venerable Colt .45; the Navy's SH-2F submarine-hunting helicopter; and the Army's field artillery support vehicle. All were restored in conference simply because the Pentagon would be saving $1 billion by closing some of its bases, and an additional $1.8 billion by curtailing retirement spending. That meant the military budget...