Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rounds per minute is inviting the weapon to melt and ornament your homemade sandals with white-hot metal. Also, your reference to the fine quality of the AK-47 is somewhat discolored. Not only does the AK-47 overheat rapidly, as you stated, it also jams twice as fast as any U.S. weapon, including the M16, because of the cheap stamp ing of the gas cylinder. You mention that the weapon turns each V.C. into a machine gunner. How can he put out large volumes of fire when his harness is designed to carry only three magazines...
...into production. The country's judiciary has undertaken to review all cases heard in the 1950s in an effort to right legal injustices, and a special commission has been established to rehabilitate the thousands of victims of the Stalinist purge trials of that period. Church and clergy are fast being freed of restraints, and the Communists' phony religious front organization, called the "Peace Priests," is disintegrating. Last week the Czechoslovaks even had their first strike under Communism. Workers at an electrical-appliance factory in Pisek walked out in complaint against management-and did not come back until...
Just as sure as presidential candidates crop up every four years, so is Cartoonist Walt Kelly sure to needle them in his comic strip, Pogo. He is off to a fast start this year. During the New Hampshire primary campaign, he sketched Romney, Rockefeller and Nixon as windup dolls running off haphazardly in all directions-and in the case of Romney, backward. Last week it was Lyndon Johnson's turn in the guise of a booted, bulbous-nosed Texas longhorn that horns in on a picture-taking session. "You gittin' my good side, oF buddy?" he inquires...
...Mile. Charlotte is reduced to four shades of grey, but they balance precisely. Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People becomes a tatterdemalion tapestry of rich reds, browns, rusts and golds, a country mile closer to paisley than pop. Clarke's new old masters are selling fast. Of 16 in the gallery, nine have already been spoken for at prices ranging from $600 to $1,200. Conceivably, pretty pictures are coming back into style. Then again, maybe they were never...
Paul Del Rossi was not an over-powering pitcher. He had a good, tailing fastball, but he was not Koufax-fast. He said his curveball was only fair. It did not bend around trees or drop off tables...