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...Henry F. Colt '46, director of University Development, blamed the drop of about $4 million from last year's totals on the weak state of the national economy...
...were down considerably in corporation and foundation giving," Colt said...
...researchers also came up with an array of James Bond weaponry that could use the shellfish toxin and other poisons as ammunition. To illustrate his testimony, Colby handed a pistol to Committee Chairman Frank Church. Resembling a Colt .45 equipped with a fat telescopic sight, the gun fires a toxin-tipped dart, almost silently and accurately up to 250 ft. Moreover, the dart is so tiny-the width of a human hair and a quarter of an inch long-as to be almost indetectable, and the poison leaves no trace in a victim's body...
Calmly, almost casually, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, 26, last week discussed her reasons for aiming a loaded Colt .45 automatic at President Ford in Sacramento, Calif. She claimed to have endangered the life of the President -and thereby revived the national nightmare of political assassination -solely to win a new trial for her master and mentor, Charles Manson. The psychopathic guru had been sentenced to jail for life, along with three of his women followers, for the sadistic slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and six others in 1969. Somehow the act of threatening Ford made sense to Squeaky Fromme. Referring...
Just how close Fromme came to killing the President became clearer when it was learned that she had known all along that she had to pull back the slide of her Colt .45 in order to fire the weapon -a procedure that she did not follow as Ford approached. A friend, who requested anonymity, reported that early last year Fromme was taken by a boy friend to the Sharp's Park rifle range in South San Francisco. Squeaky was said to have been afraid of the .45-she did not like its noise or kick-but she did learn...